The Winter Mind

It’s late
Long shadows
Winter-coming ready
Longer
Sooner into darkness
Though the thing
Take
Just as long
As any other orbiting of
Earth

It is a winter mind
And winter body
And the
Spirit
We’d like to think
Ready
Always adaptable

But
There is
SAD
And something older
Something eldritch
In the residence
Of spirit

The reason for the bonfire
And the special words
The dancing
After

Knowing that our planet must
Turn the other way
For melting
Seeds
And more
Come spring

Don’t abrogate our lights
The gifts
Of artificial power
Any more than wood and oil
Have shown our way
At night

And yet
Remember we are
Evening people
Too
Affected by the twilight
As it ebbs
And flows
The seasons
Of our kind

And with so many
Sibling species of
The world

C L Couch


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