Monday, February 18, 2008

I'm tired of winter

Sitting here,
Jittered, and oozing
caffeine from my pores.
Waiting,
then begging
for Spring.

Yesterday
scarved and wool
laden, fragments of skin
blowing drily
in semi forgetfulness.
I breath you in.
You breath me in.

I woke to the nasally wheeze
of murderous heaters
scraping the moisture from my
throat,
fingers curling
and crumbling.

I survived last year
and the year before that,
and before then, too.

A robin's egg.
The melt of earth.
The quiet plop,
plop
of ice melting.