More storms

There have been blizzards before.

Cold nor’easters have blown through

Dumping snow on the city.

There have been storms before —

Harsh winds of regret

Hurling memories back and back

against the walls of thought

Swirling re-imaginings

of how it should have gone.

They say the shift in climate

Makes for fiercer storms —

More frequent and pronounced circulation

of all that water. 

They say the shift in consciousness

Brings up these storms

So they can fall away —

Emotion rising up

before the clarifying of the field.

Afterwards, snow angels

May be revealed.

©Wendy Mulhern

February 9, 2013