Saturday, March 7, 2020

Change of Climate


A terrible mistake!

Unpredicted as a blizzard in August,

rose bushes and palm trees shocked,
stabbed and sagging under
bayonets of ice. Disoriented

adults blink unbelieving eyes, turn on
the weather station, numbly brew
morning coffee.

Kids in shorts and t-shirts
romp in the slick streets, exulting
with each snowball hurled, each car

door pelted white, each bus driver shaking
his fist, each on-target pop here

in summer’s mid-section,

our surprising winter
of no regrets.

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