Some words for the week

white buds on grey branches

first looks like new snow

it’s been a long winter

and I’ve forgotten flowers

and hills of full green

I forget that there is grass

beneath the drifts in my yard

that I can walk outside in a t-shirt

and not flinch at the coming cold

there’s a seasonal amnesia

that I fight off every year

that I try to put to paper

impossibility of summer

in the throws of a blizzard

and the july inverse

of wanting to sit by a fire

as the windows frost

and the ground disappears

Alexander Shalom Joseph is a writer from Gilpin County. He is a published author. For more information and to subscribe to Alexander’s Newsletter go to alexandershalomjoseph.com