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Thaw

I have a heart too warm
for a body of snow.

My torso went out first—
The buttons before my chest 
dropped into the soil.
One by one, they stripped me tenderly.

—I feel exposed.

My limbs were the next to leave—
Technically I only had
arms that once traced words in frost.
The damp branches—they landed right beside me.

I couldn’t reach them, of

hiku - Arctic Thaw

brushed marigold sun
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          on 
azure glaciers
polar blooms 
u n f u r l

Thaw

thaw gives way to blooms of reds purples and yellows ~


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Before Easter

A late March thundershower floats toward me
Like a plucked flower
Handed over on a walk to a lover
With a smile

Down this afternoon path
That breezes past
Spring-born ponds
Erupting
Of Peepers ululating and Chorus Frogs ratcheting
In a wave of Gnawa music.

The surface
Puckers
Diacritic raindrops
Slowly
Softly

Each plop and their purple ripple
Has not enough splash
To generate an echo

From the reedy shore.

The storm not so

towards a thaw

Towards the thaw 

 As the days of spring are here, I should be happy having made it through the winter. The April breeze brings regret, remembering what had been pushed aside, no, I was no mother’s favorite son 
Recalling every detail, overthinking every word said, reacting with angry silence as a defense to hurts

Look What I Thaw

Slowly releasing its grip
The ice recedes
Mud warms in a faint sun
Jonquils peek through snow
Robins open the summer house
Winter chuckles
Spring awaits her curtain call

My blood fails to thaw

Winter far you chased me from your presence.
You know, when frozen, my blood fails to thaw,
So this your cold smile is for what essence?
Winter far you chased me from your presence.
Don't you know your stares rob me of pleasance?
To each of your knocks my heart gazed in awe.
Winter far you chased me from your presence.
You

Thaw the Wintry Snow

Winter has cast its strangling hold inside and outside.
The joys I have known are gone.
Cold winds blow bleak and harsh.
The flowers in my garden have wilted and withered.
All things sweet have passed and flown away.
Flakes of snow, layer on layer, lie piled within,
And harden as rocks with worms of fear inching their way,
To eat away

The Thaw of Spring

Grass stalks rise upward.
to a head of fading gold
Their wings were fully spread.
a cerulean cape,
The morning smoke blows.

The willow tree was still drenched.
with lengthy icicles akin
Cat's whiskers

Daffodil drums sing an ode.
a parade in the clearing dew
on strewn gossamer
akin a wedding veil
Dawn weeps crimson tears.

and I'm just a whim
to embrace the richness of the dawn
as fresh

January Thaw

January Thaw

In the thrall of January’s dismal weather
(Comprising snowstorms and freezing temperatures)
While staring out the window from the interior,
I endeavour to regather my composure
By testing myself with a blithe question, I think keen,
“Isn’t this the coldest January you’ve ever seen?”

And wryly smile to myself with a whimpered answer,
“I think that the coldest January I recall,
From

Moscow 1993

powdery snow-drenched
coldest in seventy years
eyes frostbitten from hot tears

frozen mustaches
stalactites dripping with chill
million ruble lunch to thaw

Thaw

winter's slumber ends
colour bursts through monochrome ~
life frolics, resumes 



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1 April 2022

Springtime Thaw

Early Earth thaw
First gasp of breath
Heaves its snow chest
Like a blanket pulled back

Arches its cadaverous humps
A surfacing serpent
Along the street curbs

Slithers to the drains
Snakes away through the pipes
Spills over the dams

Swims in the rivers
Toils to seas
Butterflies as rain

Tombstone wave
Ten thousand miles away
Taps the cedar of a clipper ship

Once a snowflake
In this winter land

Marking a grave
In

Spring Thaw

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                                            sun melts ice, water

       

Scene of Crystal

Permafrost upon the boughs,
in a glistening diamond wood;
where the water meets the Terra,
thin sheets in semi-melt
perform a slow ballet.

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