January, named after Janus, the god of beginnings and transitions, has the garnet for birthstone, the cottage pink for birth flower. And January is National Thank You month: time to say ‘thank you’ for gifts, for the old year, and for the new year! It’s also when, here up North, we’re into cold: frost, rime, frozen noses … Great for bears, snow-angels, coal-eyed snow-people, and roaring fires …
WINTER PARK
hoarfrost trims
the climbing bars
snow piles against slides
footprints lie
in grey light
wind whines through
the playground
thin snowflakes
sting cheeks
the path blurs
in this twilit noon
I push against cold
peer at dim trails
rub lips fingers
and turn for home
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