Winter Song

Where did it begin?

We forgot to mow the lawn

Too much time spent

With electric deck of cards

Where did it begin?

One day the words were gone

Letters lost and found

In someone’s yard

Kids fall down in the snow

They used to

Shopping carts, a highway

Toward a single spire

Mask and glove and pipe

But not much learned

When you let me in

Against that careless fire

All the farms all the farms

All the freight

All the books had burned

Scratching out a past

We don’t remember much

Words come apart like

Tendon shattered bone

Once there was a city

You knew well its touch

Still got the linen but

The memory’s thread is gone

Kids fall down in the snow