january
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winter ice gray skies
winter ice gray skies
snow deeper than patience
icicles longer than the
hope of an end to it slippery
roads begging for accidents
fence posts with fractured
limbs frozen cars stiff with
stubbornness water pipes
burst from the tension
shoveling scraping brushing
shoveling scraping brushing
the countryside's stuffed
with snow like an ignored
laundry basket high heating
bills wail firewood's buried
in the white grave sun's
so depressed it won't come
out anymore night dreams of
tropical islands day has had a
nervous breakdown it's in an
asylum waiting for the release
of spring arrested by the cold
jailed for its warm thoughts
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Poem by Janet Cannon
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