Ken Wagner

01-29-20

Hard to speak
with cold numbing lips – A floorboard
creak downstairs

Shoveled walk
The blizzards
keep covering

Silent cold
An unexplained
dog bark

Freezing hands
on my morning walk – Your skin
beneath the covers

Night wind
Mare bucks
and blows

Snow
squall
Sneeze

Frozen
footprint
Another birthday

Vodka straight up
He slipped and froze between
curb and car

Lake ice
cracks underfoot
Decision time

Ivy spreads
Roots before
leaves