Tagged: weather
Spring is a spry cat –
Spring is a spry cat –
we follow, helpless to its
mercurial whims
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** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: mercurial
here we stand, in hot
here we stand, in hot
chocolate weather, layering
on the memories
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** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: layering
on the last day of
on the last day of
november, it’s near sixty
degrees fahrenheit,
autumn pauses its camouflage
unsure of which way to turn
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t minus one entire
t minus one entire
season to winter,
mom and i are giddy,
fingers sugar-
tipped, mouths
citrusy sweet.
end-of-summer
weather is meant
to be this candied-
orange-peel-sticky
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in the beginning was
in the beginning was
the word, and the word
was stella, rapping so
gently at my
window with her icy
knuckles this morning –
despite forecasts
and city shutdowns
and a state of emergency
declaration and thousands
of plows deployed
across the boroughs,
and lining up outside
grocery stores under
a cool blue sky –
despite everything, still
leaning on her southern
charm, like a new art form
.
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during most mornings,
during most mornings,
the city negotiates
with sky, a slow dance
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two a.m. in the
two a.m. in the
morning, christmas eve or day – it’s
all a blur, lying
awake in the dark, high sixties,
three mosquito bites in winter
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