winter broke
for the past couple days
letting warmth
once more infuse
my tepid soulmurmurs
but the gray
overwrought dreariness
settles insufferably
a lead blanket
lined with dread
as the forecast for
a traveling fool
looks to dip down
into winter once more

i have become
nigh indecipherable
to myself
the walls i could
wriggle open are now
impenetrable leaving
just this thunderous ache
rebounding ad nauseum