Latish On A Winter Coming Night


jp melville,toronto,canada,ottawa,elora,farm





Latish On A Winter Coming Night
10 November 2019
 jp


Winter bearing down upon us all
Grey slate skies
Cold wind
Snow whispering through the early dusk…

Darkness now…

Wind slipping around the cabin walls
Wood stove clinks with heat
Dog sighs
Oddly…  a fly buzzes
Quiet enough to hear the ring in my ears…

Elsewhere I know
The world clatters with friendship…
And war…
And insects on wet tropical forest floors
While here…
…
…
…
Now under frosted ground
Forest trees naked of leaves
Within them a pond…
Ice encrusted
…
…
…
The world sleeps ----

What odd extremes known inside my head…
What busyness it takes
To have electric light and airplanes…

Too much, my friend, mr. buzzing fly…

Too much inside my head
To consider why, the why, of 8 billion people…

All vibrating…

While I and the forest
Around me
Sleeps.

Comments

Post a Comment

Thanks for your thoughts. If you wish to connect....
find me at...
jpmlvll (@) gmail.com
thanks again

Popular posts from this blog

End Another Day

Image
Sept 15, 2018 JP   End Another Day   Now it is almost time to start another day Which means it must be getting                 Close to when I’ll fall asleep Some sleeps and mornings arrive in a blink                 Other sleeps are fitful                                 And it takes forever to get to the new day Sometimes it’s because I am worried about something And I have to tell myself what a waste of time that is Worrying about something in the darkness                 When even the light won’t come if you beg it to Sometimes it takes forever because                 My heart keeps missing a beat                                 Because missed beats wake me                                                 And I have to gasp to catch                                                                 A bit of oxygen Other times it’s because I drank too much alcohol, even a little And I always find there is nothing to be gained for sleep from al
Read more