February smells
like Michigan summer,
I keep the windows in the bedroom cracked.
The furnace clicks on at 5 am
when two birds call and answer
a syncopated trull, a faint chirp in reply,
against the woosh of wind low and guttural
I do not want to wake,
my nose
is cold
still my eyes flutter wild
then I open fast for the prelude.
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