Happy Valentines day.

• Just Like a Chinook

She come on strong and warm and totally unexpected.           

 

Just like a chinook during one a’ them long hard spine cracking winters

 

when even the stones groan.

 

My spirit quivered.   

              

Been a while.

 

You bury things deep in a spell like that

 

and time                      takes time

 

to thaw feelin’s

froze deep as all that.

 

Quick. Like a wink. A brief flurry of dancin’

 

 

hand grabbin’ romancin’

 

 

that settles your heart into spring.

 

And then’s gone. 

 

 

And after one a’ them passages of short hollow gut feelin’s winter come back                           

 

and then softened like new fallen snow.

 

 

Spring snow.

 

 

And I knew that I’d make it.

 

 

All quite unexpected.                 Just like a chinook.

 

 

 

 

By my pard, DW Grothe.

 

 

 

 

I bet you like this one, huh Jim? 🙂