there’s a gene in me wants to hibernate
it is not the dog’s cancer-cough today
that makes me want to stay abed, though that
does weigh my heart with utter gravity –
it is the dropping temperature and damp
of this Kentucky winter day. cold front
moving in with wind and rain and tonight
forecasted for a hard freeze. I’m second
shift, so when I emerge from my nine hours,
there will be ice on my windshield and I
am likely to forget the ice scraper
yet again and be forced for safety’s sake
to sit in the warming Cadi and watch
invisible armies combat Jack Frost.

dmpitchford 12/04/23