This January Day 2018
Rain.
Rain and nearly
60 degrees !!! when
a week ago it was thirteen below zero
and now there are late April
pools on the blond lawn
and mud. A friend
of mine
who died
the day after Christmas
who was was?
is
inside a vault
of ash
is being asked
to wait until spring to get back
no, that’s not how
I want to
say it
the ground’s been
rock solid since before Thanksgiving
and now this
freakish sauna
has opened the mouth
of the cemetery with a moan. He could go
and not have
to wait till
May
everything's completely
bare
where last Saturday into Sunday
into Monday
it was 30 plus
inches of snow
What’s becoming
of us? What
are we
supposed to rely on
(not any more that staunch man)
and the / or the
come Sunday there’ll be a drastic change in the weather
what?
???
I can’t even wrap
my hand around
myself
or grasp
his
or
even know what to reach
for in the dark morning
before I take
the kids to school:
wool and a shovel?
rubber boots and an umbrella?
And a grave (what?
)
yet
)
yet
to be dug...
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