February

--Jack Collom

It is all kind of lovely that I know

what I attend here now the maturity of snow

has settled around forming a sort of time

pushing that other over either horizon and all is mine

in any colors to be chosen and

everything is cold and nothing is totally frozen

soon enough

the primary rough

erosion of what white fat it will occur

     stiff yellows O

beautiful beautifully austere

     be gotten down to, that much rash and achievement that

             would promote to, but

now I know my own red

network electrifying this welcome annual hush.