Winter Blues
By Marianne Jones
Uninvited Guest, digital illustration, boy Roland
Here
summer is as brief as youth.
Winter is an uninvited guest
who settles in to stay,
puts his muddy boots on the furniture,
complains about the service
and eats all the food.
Unwilling landlords,
we have no choice
but to grin and bear him
until his gentler sibling, whom he detests,
arrives, forcing him,
after much bluster,
to pack up and move further north.