Sadded Winter

Well, up here the windows always icy or dewy on the inside, except where the dog prints up the window.
It feels like bed time around dinner time and the middle of the night in the middle of the morning.
Forecast is twenties, thirties, flurries, and one of these days we'll get a bumper-crop of dry powdery snow.
Then the snow lingers on to get dirty and driven over until the sun dominates the sky once again in March-ish break up - slush and puddles of ice.
My favorite was taking Buddy for a walk the other night, walking to the park (in the dark), and two guys are playing ice hockey in the outdoor ice hockey rink nearby.
Cold Halloween/Thanksgiving.

I expect less snow to be in the walkway and the drive-way this year, and I have some skis which had collected dust, but with any luck will be useful again.
I regret not having propped up those storage units behind the house, especially since the drifts will block it from opening all together one day soon.
That fast frost day will see the storage units become suspended time capsules where only cold sees the passing through.
Little movements stand out in what little light is left, but it is just as easy to relax when you see things as it is to hit attention like the dog is.
If you make too much noise you may miss the silence that can literally capture you for ages, yet the lease of the silence is the ice skate edge it has to turn on.
Cars still go by with people and things safely buried and air bagged on impact; what protection I need for their likes I have in my own community and networks - my net worth.

Unstopper some Strawberry essence if your innocent lips could still speak effervescently without regard to their mouthy gender, boy or girl, talkative the same.
A tree trunk of innocence stands in a forest, so said the trees, so say the woods, so sing the birds, and so write the shepherds.
Crawled on all fours ever? extinguishing the collected wisdom which failed so often that you never spoke of it to anyone? How does crawling treat you? A child?
I grew old, grew elbows, grew greedy or agnostic, grew sarcastic with irony and hyperbole and in effigy of my purgatory.
I crawled harder to crying on adverse elbows still trying to learn language for paperwork I couldn't just cheat at like everyone I didn't know must have been doing.
Unstop it.
Readopt.