Happy new year, Everyone!
A New Year's Haiku from the North Woods
Icicles sparkle,
deer leave telltale tracks, and wild
turkeys peck for bugs.
Snow and cold layer
the land, the forest. A boon
to snowplow drivers,
a bane for twenty-
year-old furnaces. Pipes freeze,
thaw, split, spew liquid
like Vesuvius
belching, flooding floors not with
fire but ice water.
But come tomorrow
2020 promises
to send postcard days.
So, from all of us
at the cabin, the plumbers,
the insurance guy,
the furnace men and
me, "Happy New Year!" and may
it pass by claim free.
Marilyn Aschoff Mellor
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