Adventure on Life Now

"My life has dragged on. In the recitative of a blizzard
a keen ear picks up the tune of the Ice Age."
    –Brodsky, from "Eclogue IV: Winter"










                                 II

Truth is: a bifurcation of life by cold.
Not all choose to witness the masks by day
as anyone can enter a dream yet to unfold
brought on by the veneer of what sunlight says
and it's easier to consider adventures to come
pen in hand, letters by fingers, a stranger to love,

than to live like the DNA had always foretold:
who could have known the Amazon by Brazil
would have touched to fire for a thousand acres,
while here in the midwest we melt in stifled offices,
the vital heat within expunged since high school,
the anthropocene turned us to blank fools.