The threshold of summer

a whisper of heat

in the storm wind now

you can almost hear the flowers

plotting to shock the hills

with color

but there is still two feet of snow

in my front yard

and there is more expected

so for now summer lives

only in our hearts

but come June

winter will take its place

and we will barely remember

these buried muddy months

Alexander Joseph is a writer, creative writing teacher, and host of the podcast American Wasteland. He is from and lives in Rollinsville and in “some words for the week”, Alexander shares a small poetic dispatch about life in the mountains, love, nature, bath taking, 

and so many other small moments from his every day. He hopes that his words here can offer a respite from the moment, a tiny escape into another world of feeling and sight and smell and taste and sound, a sense engagement that you can bring with you into the rest of your week, a deep breath before going forward.