It’s about boot heels for metronomes tonight, the out of tune guitar grinning on the upstroke is our Harvest, is our reveling in daybreak frost never coming—
can be warded off by rosy cheeks a two-step a whisky breakdown—
Not yet, not yet
Drinking off cold to keep a rhythm in step with Michigan months shifting to auburn tones like old-fashioned photographs.
Until ***** hounds trickle into blankets, incubate into hangovers thrown on living room couches, floors, acres,