01-11-2026, 01:42 PM
The sky today was full of soggy cloud
(that is not an error; one cloud hung there).
It stretched from east to west and north to south,
from dismal dawn's horizon to grey dusk.
No sunlit beam could pierce its wooly gloom.
It sat with heavy haunches on the air
condensing clammy atmosphere to breath
and threatening snow then ice then rain then snow.
And so I found a warmer light inside
away from bleak midwinter's pallid face.
I blocked the window and my thoughts with books
and whiled away the day in brighter lands.
(that is not an error; one cloud hung there).
It stretched from east to west and north to south,
from dismal dawn's horizon to grey dusk.
No sunlit beam could pierce its wooly gloom.
It sat with heavy haunches on the air
condensing clammy atmosphere to breath
and threatening snow then ice then rain then snow.
And so I found a warmer light inside
away from bleak midwinter's pallid face.
I blocked the window and my thoughts with books
and whiled away the day in brighter lands.
The Soufflé isn’t the soufflé; the soufflé is the recipe. --Clara