Birdsong again
I think it has been years of winter
Sadness crunches under fingernails
I icicle my thoughts and drip-drop them
No ceremony
Just melt
And plunge

Birdsong again
A breath that doesn’t sting my lungs
Air no longer attacking a weakened will to live
I blink a thank you into the forgiving breeze
Shards to spiderwebs
They stick
And dissolve