Thursday, July 3, 2025

The periphery of spring Feb 26, 2025

 

Cold comes again after a brief respite, hints of early spring sprinkled into our frost-bitten world like salt. This sense of reprieve after months of snow and chill, his end game we engage in each time of year, waiting for love to bloom again after it vanished under sheets of ice we scale over even as it grows thin, the throb of something still living alone in the dark waters beneath, a memory recalled at thit time of year to stir blood back not our weary limbs, the kiss, the touch, the scent of sweet perfume, there, but not there, a lingering spirit on the edge of periphery, vanishing each time we bring our attention to it, like smoke we stoke up and then try desperately to grasp, oozing from between our fingers to vanish again, the cold that clings to us as we stumble towards the sweetness of spring, needing to feel warm again.


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