Does the lengthening day require a long poem or short poem with long lines?
In winter is a poem's long lines to warm? Or are they minimal to mimic and sear the cold?
Of course, food is seasonal. Season being somewhere all the time. Winter requires soup, stew, and potatoes. Although Salad Nicoise makes keen use of spuds in any season.
Peasants still
ReplyDeleterolling around the laws of motion
it was a potato on the floor
this way they caught a few winks
between courses, by the fire
picture a snowstorm just beginning
and the air full of doubt
one's only son walking
to report on the measured fall
tomorrow won't be as cold or long
but that is not what matters
he's lost his gloves
and his pockets are full
she said bring salt for the soup
she's always saying things
he wishes he could hear but
with the rolling of the planets
it's hard to know what's next
he leaves a trail of his treasure
hopes they'll find him before dark