Wednesday, February 18, 2026

February Thaw

jo'b
We measure our lives by our joys. -- Thoreau. Feb. 23, 1860


I let the fire go out            

and opened up the house,            

invited in the wind            

and stepped outside,            

the road now bare enough            

to ride, and that I did,            

shouting out to neighbors            

mucking out their barns,            

stubble showing in the fields            

as snow recedes, and I            

was happy to survive,            

blinking in sunlight,            

yet something was missing still,            

something weather only can't provide,            

something... something more,            

but what?            


Answers, I suppose.