Winging It Through Winter by Bonnie Demerjian
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| Image | Darya Sannikova |
Winging It Through Winter
These are the cold days, abundant in darkness.
Learn from the birds the ways of survival —
eat, gorge even, and cache what you hold dear.
Your small soul will need this fuel
to satisfy the day and feed the future.
Dress for the weather. Hide in your feathers.
Pull your down bag around your head
to shelter the smoldering heart from
ranting wind and discouraging wet.
Resist with others, your sisters and brothers.
Huddle and outwit winter as one warm mass.
Shiver with passion or sink into torpor. Wait.
Slow beat, slow breath.
Then shake it off and explore. Be a pioneer in love when
the present way is the death way.
You’ll be a stranger in a foreign land.
Make it your own.
© Bonnie Demerjian
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| Bonnie Demerjian Bonnie Demerjian writes from her home in the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska, a place that nourishes her writing. Her poetry has appeared in Tidal Echoes, Alaska Women Speak, and Blue Heron Review, among others. She has also written four books on the area’s human and natural history. |
Beautiful!
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