Some words for the week

this morning at six twenty am

as I drive the canyon curves

in gold warm light

I think of this same drive

at the same time come winter

how I’ll be in the dark

for most of my commute

how as I round that last bend

and see the reservoir

and the faint

shimmered glimmering

of our town

as the sun rises red

over new snow

and the scars of the ski area

on the mountainside

it’s always so strange for me

to think of the cold now

as the heat still grows

it’s like we live in two worlds here

that of wind and white weather

that of wildflowers and dust

and I’m glad to be in both

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