Their Winter Bed

Something about a sunny winter's slanting light Makes one want to spend sunny lazy afternoons In sunlight that seems just to lift world's weight While in one's heart there beats merry tunes Winter afternoons wonderful time for us Living our wintertime without a scar Worked through years that have made all difference This wintertime is made up of things that just are Wintertime prepares one's heart for most anything The slant of the afernoon's sun impedes despair Even plants, animals overcome all winter's affliction They sway and dance with the slant fo warm air Stand_ears erect, twitch different ways listens As if they are holding their warm moist deep breath Now renewed by the slanted light run the distance To their winter's bed, where this time winter won't mean death