Temps continue
to fall.

Witness
thin layers

of snow
unshoveled

cover bland
sidewalks.

Ice on
cement

turns sidewalks
into galaxies.

Watch starlight
infuse life,

reshape
squares,

reveal hidden
pathways

via
moonlight,

bring
inspiration

to a city
where traffic

moves slowly.
It’s winter.

 

Janet Cormier is a painter, writes prose and poetry, and performs comedy. Janet prefers different and original over pretty. She loves collecting stuff, but cleaning not so much. Janet also talks to strangers. A lot. Her column appears weekly on Oddball Magazine.