Forty Degrees, Light
Wind
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
—“Ode
to the West Wind,” Percy Bysse
Shelley
Our
January thaw began December first,
still going
strong, no end in sight.
What
happens to spring if winter doesn’t
come? Does she wait one more year
or give
way to summer now, tempting us
to plant
despite the threat of frost?
We don’t
need to answer here. Two more days
the
Ground Hog will let us know.
What
better weather vane than that?
—Donnell
Hunter
31
January 2012
"Every tree wii start to sing" if your weather continues. What a sweet way to open the day--a poem, a speech, a sacred text--and rain today!
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ReplyDeleteForecast today is light snow 70%. I think winter came on a Friday this year.
Robins have appeared, but that's no sure sign since some hang out all winter anyway. A better sign is a swallow or the gurgling hollow sound of trumpeting cranes circling high in the sky. That lifts our heads to rejoice.