Runoff

January’s drop-down menu

leaves everything to the imagination:

splotch the ice, splice the light,

remake the spirit…

Just get on with it,

doing what you have to do

with the gray palette that lies

to hand. The sun’s coming soon.

A future, then, of warmth and runoff,

and old faces surprised to see us.

A cache of love, I’d call it,

opened up, vernal, refreshed.