Saturday, January 23, 2010

Eggnog

Down the length of a trench of snow
Dug by the wide turn of a Ford Explorer,
Should I be my dog and put my snout to the tread
Dug along a shallow arc by the wide turn of an automobile?

Should I put my ear to the mouth of an evergreen strip
Between street, reservoir and mumbling parkway?

Should my shadows fall from the mouth of Chimney Rock
Rebuilt in white by haphazard plows and snowman piles?

Is winter really something to get high about,
Or should I tug his collar and take him home?

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