Tuesdays with Nikki (#7) ... even though it's Wednesday

I'm late this week. The 4th of July holiday and illness got me behind. Last week's Writer's Block Wednesday word was COLDEST. I think tonight's poem from Nikki uses that word perfectly. Reflect and enjoy....

Hampton, Virginia

By Nikki Giovanni

copyright 1975

the birds flew south

earlier this year

and flowers wilted under the glare

of frost

nature puts her house in order

the weather reports say this

will be the coldest winter

already the perch have burrowed

deep into the lakes

and the snails are six instead

of three feet under

i quilted myself

one blanket and purchased five

pounds of colored popcorn

in corners i placed dried

flowers and in my bathroom a jar

of lavender smells

my landlord stripped my windows

and i cut all my old sox for feet pads

they say you should fight the cold with the cold

but since I never do anything right

i called you