We fight each time it snows

 We fight each time it snows,

I can’t help but

                           Escape.

 

Escape from daily cost,

Into feign arms of responsibility

              And forget.

 

How foolish I

              Run,

As if cost is not the principle of love.

 

You are dear, Dear One,

Because of the expense.

              I tire of new sounds,

 

long for smells of home.

              We fight each time it snows.

Familiar to me like the way to

 

              Pull the towel.

              Or close the dishwasher

Gently for fingers seeking spoons.

 

 

Like searching vents

              For stolen treasure,

We bemoan that falling snow.

             

I run away,

When Lady Morgan calls,

              I don’t have to think about anything else.

 

I don’t have to worry about anything else.

It’s only skiing.

              I don’t need anything extra

             

I don’t want anything extra.

Just the skiing is good enough.

We fight each time it snows.

 

That other woman,

That other life is not

              Enough for me.

I love every sound of skiing,

              Find escape in every sensation.

But I won’t trade my mountain for a molehill.

 

Or stuffed whales for silver.

Purple binkies

And broken mops

 

Are quite enough for me.

              I’d trade my seventh soul,

For towers and tracks and toys,

 

              To fight each time it snows.

May my tracker count the cost,

              You are dearer to me with every toggle light

 

And every inch of powder.

You are dear, Dear One,

Because of the expense.

 

 Inspiration:

Jesper Tjäder (Director). (2023, December 12). DOPE SNOW x JT 2024.         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrmIORzeEjc

Johnson, K. (2022). Fatal: Poems. Persea Books.