there is a time to keep,
and a time to throw away:
theatre programs
ticket stubs
dead plants
math tests
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foreliving
in frozen january
i catch myself
longing for spring
a gift from sunny florida
every year at Christmas
my grandfather’s sister
sends him a box of oranges
from Florida — sometimes
grapefruits, too, which he
prepares for us of a morning
with an expert hand
the place in the pines
on a solitary ramble through the woods
i met a path i had not seen before
weather advisory
the TV weatherman
is probably telling us
not to get excited
new wonders
that winter was one of walking
of stalking the sunset’s glow
to the western road and then
watching the fire fade from the treetops
before shrugging home in the dusk
sturm und drang
all monday the fog hung heavy in the air
as if to say the new year had arrived
but no one was quite ready to face it
dreaming
i woke to the scent of petrichor —
that dust-on-the-rain smell
that always makes my heart
ache for spring
bared
in winter the trees
show their secrets
for the keeping
i found our younger selves today tucked away
in a box in a corner of the basement,
the you of then not even ten years older
than the me of now.