3.21.14 It's The Beauty That Stops Me

We do have blossoms -
Red tulips in the kitchen
Begonia semperflorens with its profusion of
orange at bedside leaning into the window all winter long 
now in glorious
bloom

The towering Begonia
semperflorens cultorum exploding vast clusters ; pink
flowers that jettison across
rooms ; bright confetti as they
ripen ; all inside peering
out

And out of doors on this
March 21st? An equanimical
36• chills bare feet ; in pajamas I
step onto earth to tie dogs as the
broad winded sweep of Spring's
early morning clouds rangle
pink and burnished deep blue
overhead

And at this moment I also have that
pause that impatience - the awareness of seasonal living when youknow there's a change finally coming and
soon

Yet, what if it were like this
all year long? This
cold and icy rain back and
forth in great variations the
inconsistency keeping you
ever on your
toes?

Incomprehensible ramifications of
snow and weather -so that
we too , like the Finns , would have 180 words for snow and
not long after certainly
1,000 words for
Reindeer