Safe As Houses

Remember icicles? And how mid-month

my back is snow done and now I haven't shovelled

in years so I find other ways to

contort my body in my fallow month

finding other methods to groan about the house,

I'm often homeward bound and this month

is the month of binding, I should knock out all the floors,

and the stairs, live in the basement, so high the sides

of the nest so when the snow comes for me

and the neighbour asks did you shovel yet,

will you shovel yet, I can trace in condensation,

on slit windows, abandon hope all ye who,

actually no, back in the spring - "stretching".