Give me a December Sky.
Don’t know; it just came to me sitting here. Snow!
December is here! For me, this is the month when it’s impossible to feel glum. Today, the sky is softer than the breast of any chicken.
Snow, snow, I keep asking for a delivery. Not the tantalising little flakes; give me the works. I want to wear my sweater, put away since spring. I want to shiver and wipe my dribbly nose, feel the few teeth left in my head chattering.
To hell with the car. I’ll walk because, in December, the silence of the snow-covered streets is good for thinking. Thoughts that waft and linger in the mind without effort turning playfully like the bright colored lights in windows and doorways.
Watch the swirling gusts of snow dust blown along the cracked, deserted pavements, hiding the road’s hideous pot-holed tarmac, while in the windows of office blocks, the artificial Christmas trees, joyful and pink, purple, blue twinkling lights in the lamp-lit snowy evening.
I’ll walk in December, thoughts appearing from around every corner, abruptly, like impatient buses waiting for you to get aboard. The lanes, even on a dark Sunday evening, leave one so breathless.
The weeds that looped up around the iron railings are gone, and now the snow settles on the rusting iron hinges of the closed gate to the park. The restaurants, salons, and gas stations look so different along the street, set against the crisp brightness.
There’s the bar I’m walking to, but before I get there, I’ll be laughing and chuckling. The beer will be frostily refreshing, sparkling gold yellow in the dusk of chattering folk.
What, no red-garbed man with a cotton white beard and smile?
This was my December walk down the page.
Tomorrow, it will be like this.
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