Winter Adjustment Woes

PROBE the closet, find a single glove
Pull out another, decide it doesn’t CLASH much.
Grab a sweater with enough holes that you
Guess the last person to wear it was
SLAIN where they stood.
Grab last week’s jeans, making sure
Not the pair from the rag-bag.
Throw it all on and give self
A SLANT-wise look in the mirror.
Decide it works, and if anyone asks,
Just say you’ve been called on to
Illustrate a SLANG dictionary
For the entry on “frumpy.”

Georg’ann

After driving hours in blinding rain
finally a BREAK. Hands ease
their grip on the steering wheel.
CATCH a glimpse of rolling fields
studded with far off black cows.
Majestic white sycamore trees
divas among the chorus
of dark silhouettes.

Try to AVOID being
boxed between semi trucks,
push aside my QUALM
with an audiobook. SPAWN
images of a river adventure
told using the SLANG of
another time, another place.

Heather