It will be one of those winters (written just now... my first work of 2018)

It will be one of those winters

of which all peoples will talk

far into the future

if data still matters then

for most of us except maybe

those living along the equator

will have been during this winter

in a dark warm place

and will not have ventured out

but a sense that this is one of those winters

permeates the animal skins wrapped around us

and the animal skin with which we come into being

all wrapped around our bones

and the sealed spaces in the chinks—

permeates deeper than those winters before

and we will debate and never reach consensus

on whether acts of our own volition

have pricked this response from nature—

this response from a nature conscious of—

in its own very matter—and aware of—
in its own very spirit—

even our own very thoughts