what winter does (not a haiku)
what winter does
is make us forget how
May splendifies the earth
from the drabness
and brown of hibernation
to
greens so bright
and neon
filtering
in the light of a
spring sunrise
that you forgot the colors existed.
what winter does
is make us forget
the smell of lilacs,
though we
think we recall it
in the dead of
january,
but it’s just
a memory,
because that
first small scent
of spring lilac –
the memory was
nothing like this.
what winter does
is make us forget that
its complete silence,
its stillness,
its full calm,
was preparing us
for what we
forgot.
