Winter's End
 
                        I miss the comfort in being sad   Kurt Cobain     I                Cars go by,   spray from tires coursing the grey streets   Red tail-lights bleeding,   yellow line, stop sign   An ordered world   of shopping malls and parking stalls   and coffee in the afternoon   I shuffle in to settle all accounts of sadness   I have with me a coiled notebook and pen,   and some place that is a mystery to me,   the creative vaults of craft   Perhaps the sun will show itself   and I will sit outside and watch the blackbirds   strut before their shadows                   I live in the deep pools of winter, a man groping in the well of sadness where all is up and obtainable, nothing below to fall into, no more steel-jawed traps for I have sprung them all. I say live because it is the aliveness of sadness, the energy ...