i find
i prefer the
longest night
over any
extended solar
exuberance
this day wobbling
at the farthest
point on an
egg spinning
around an
avaricious star
draped in shadows
as the sparrows
sing sleepily
in the cold

keep your
halcyon daze
spent burnt
beneath summer’s
vicious glare
give me a fireplace
softly popping
as hoarfrost
blossoms on
skeletal branches

my depression
has never been
limited to season
no surplus of
vitamin d granted
by an indifferent
ever expanding sun
could hope to
balance out these
cyclical polarities
so give me the
longest night
spent inside
scribbling odes
to her perfection