2.5 miles
river road, south/north
28 degrees
90% sharp, crusty snow and ice
Should have worn my yaktrax today. So slick and uneven. What a bummer. The river was open and beautiful, the sun glowing through the gray gloom, the air not too cold. But the path was terrible–too rough and uneven and dangerous.
Walking earlier this morning with the dog, my left kneecap couldn’t find its groove. It wasn’t completely sliding out, but it was rubbing. Not sure why, but running helps it get back into place. Oh, the body is such a strange thing.
Encountered lots of runners. A few bikers. Some walkers. No Daily Walker. Turned around at the double-bridge parking lot and put on a playlist. Started with my new favorite song: Black Wizard Wave by Nur-d. I would have been flying down the path if it hadn’t been so icy.
Still playing around with my favorite lines of poetry from all the poems I gathered in 2019. So much fun.
Cento/ Sara Lynne Puotinen
VI.
I’m sorry for the rabbits.
And I’m sorry for us
To know this.
Suffice it to say I am sorry all the time.
VII.
All that trees can ever learn they know now
clear cut and certain, they rise, telling me
Go forth to the forests and grow wise
and who among us could ignore such odd
and precise counsel?
VIII.
Meanwhile, even the birds sing
to-do lists and quietly
the doe does what does do.
VIX.
for no reason
the windowed ones in their windowed world
lock the door