Winter
a return to light
follows the winter solstice
and the darkest day.
It will be easier after these cold and rainy days have passed.
Easier to work, to plan and to dream of longer, brighter days.
The days of the week lose their meaning when the sky
is perpetually dark and cloudy; there is nothing to distinguish
the earth’s constant spinning of morning into night
and morning into night again.
I let the food tell me the time.
Rice with beans means night,
and coffee with milk means morning.
Missed Connections are filled with good, bad and grey-sky-haiku. Did you write one? Did you find one? While you wait and watch for lighter days, email the link to Lovelorn Poets. We’ll preserve those solstice-time-syllables for all eternity.
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