Spring?

Most everyone has had enough of winter this year.  Perhaps those that ski found this particular winter rather enjoyable.  Not me.  It has seemed rather endless.

In light of my crankiness, cabin-fever and a recent trip to Wal Mart.  This arose:

An Ode to Spring

March 2014

Spring has sprung,

That's what they say.

I sit enshrined in fleece today!

Crazed with cold,

Four walls I flee,

To a store nearby to me.

Within this place,

Are colors rare

When black and gray are all I wear.

Bright, warm colors beckon me,

To try on clothes,

In a size three!

Lime, lemon-bold and tangerine,

But, do they match,

My flanneled jeans?

Nearby are very tiny things--

Two pieces held,

With little strings.

But could I stand my body bare

Without my thermal

Underwear?

Back home I head with empty cart.

This is not for,

The faint of heart.

My frozen skin,

Not ready for

Bright clothing that is paper thin.

Just six more weeks,

The rodent said.

How I like to think him dead.