19 A Warm Day in December

I wanted to break out in song

Sing and

Dance

The first warm day. In weeks. At least 28

The sun was more than a dream. Could have been spring.

Not the start of more months of dread –

darkness.

Even a runner out!

The Lakewalk

has been nearly abandoned…

back to life today, although,

slow,

spots of melt, calico patches of salted sand and softening snow

I will soak up these rare days

in their transience

In hope that a little

Lightness

Will remain

When the heavy. Dark. falls again (soon)

Whisper of leaves and branches

and the silky ripple

that means today

the water is unfrozen