Thursday, December 12, 2024

A December post from long ago...

 

Growing up

the tropics were languid
heat and humidity
induce brevity of motion...

Snow was a foreign concept,
its flakes and sheets, falling, a quiet patchwork of white
leaving midwestern streets dirty with slush,
A memory I would have thirty years in the future,
now five years in the past.

Seasons are all about waiting,
For first snows, rains, buds, heatwaves, chills and cool nights
burrowing beneath comforters, languid once more.

E, 2009

5 comments:

Ms. Moon said...

Nice.

Boud said...

That was really good,e, thank you for reviving it. You've lived in interesting places.

Elephant's Child said...

Beautiful.

Joanne Noragon said...

That sums our yearly cycle.

DeniseinVA said...

This is such a lovely poem, thank you so much for sharing it.