A lantern buzzes and hums over your

December 16, 2018 3:18PM

A lantern buzzes and hums over your
Potatoes and gravy Alaskan dream.

A beard to kill all beards,
A gravel voice to scold Tom Waits.

Clouds billow from those pent lungs,
A closet of deep green and minty,
Burning, rising silence.

That bundle of fur and love bounces
Unapologetically.

All tongue and love.

Drifts swarm the logs, pummels of
White wind, auburn and
Sifted wheezing groaning
Weight.

The coughing doesn’t stop for quite some time.