“Some Words for the Week”

I wake from a dream

in which I’m being

thrown out of a restaurant

for not being able to pay

to my lover shaking my foot

and beckoning me

to the bedroom window

where there in the snow

beyond the walls and glass

two foxes play

orange as perfect suns

or fields of blooming marigolds

the foxes chase each other

through the snow

bounding and bouncing

over the wind drifts

and tree wells

we watch in awe

for forty minutes

the dawn rising

snowy peaks turning red

then pink then gold

a full moon above us

and the foxes

the whole forest a playground

them diving into

and floating over the snow

I’m wrapped in the blanket

watching laughing near crying

there are beautiful things

happening all around us

all the time

it’s so easy to not see them

but they are there always

in some form

beyond the windows

and bad dreams

a life of frolic and play

Alexander Shalom Joseph is a writer from Gilpin County. He has two published books and one more forthcoming in the Fall of 2022. For more information and to subscribe to Alexander’s Newsletter go to alexandershalomjoseph.com