wake for the winter – cold front, february-march 2018 – haiku chain

we all have it in us

this dying for summer this

dawning in darkness

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like buds at the tips

of february twigs we grow

and feel its stirring

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springtime inside us

until a cold front snuffs out

our wake for the winter

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a crocus-white chill

grabs us not from the grave but

its deep dark bed of earth

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winter clasps us tight

anew and what we wished gone

we take it back again

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like people waved goodbye

come back and kissed afresh our

winter wishes woke

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we hug them to warm us

our needs and loves we never lose

we have them all in us

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Omm

Comments

  1. Camilla Levan says

    Yes, this is just how it feels to me, being snowed in when we were expecting Springtime! There are a lot of things to cherish even so.

  2. James Wood says

    Mimdblowing ideas about how desires humans have at one moment give way to others quite suddenly, replacing them when circumstances unexpectedly change.

    The poem seems to be about quite specific climatological events in Northern Europe at the end of February, 2018. However, the title also refers to “March 2018”, a date posterior to that of the poem’s publication.

    It is poetry anticipating, subsuming the future in its words.
    It is poetry which literally creates the future.

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