February gripping
Tightly to my frozen toes
I can’t shake it off

February gripping
Tightly to my frozen toes
I can’t shake it off
Soft snowy imprints
Lead me to the sycamore
Secret squirrel nest
Meltwater rising
Grey gull frozen to the buoy
Glaring, piercing stare
Swinging opinions
Left hanging in the balance
I think I’ll stay here
Between brume brambles
Before buds begin blooming
Breathing bleak beauty
Flawed comparisons
Be the best you you can be
Summer is coming
As the old mines collapsed
The canals that served them sunk
In grim irony
Do I step forward
Into the darkest abyss?
Teeter on the brink
When the future is
Uncharted, hazy and dark
I turn to the past
We fall for winter
And spring to life in summer
Yet ever present