City Hibernation

They emerge slowly
like hibernating bears
coming forth after a
storm hesitating
watching
moving about

They begin to shovel
snow and to scrape
icy automobiles in
hopes of venturing
out but they
remain unmoved

One gentleman wields a
camera focusing on
his laurel hedge
photographing
something
then disappears

Children begin to sled
throwing snowballs
laughing the cold
forgotten then
darkness
all is quiet

© January 2012
Renee Espriu

8 Replies to “City Hibernation”

    1. We don’t get the snow you do but this week it caught up with us. The worse storm they say in 20yrs. I had to break a sheet of ice off the car this morning. It is like a skating rink outside and some 300,000 people in the area are without power.

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  1. Lovely poem Renee along with your art work.. I expect we can expect colder weather moving in from the states soon as we usually get the tail end of what ever has blown your way on the Jet stream.. xx

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