When in a February state of mind...

There is a term in French poetics called paysage moralise. And it is a technique used by writers that want the landscape to mimic or echo the piece they are writing. It is a commonly used practice and with the writing below I share the sense of paysage moralise;


February, or waiting for something like February to pass

...as the day’s late,
night light
leans long,
longer than before
into seemingless
tomorrow...
We begin
now– today–
to come to terms
or, perhaps, just display
who we are

all
– alone–.

(Within sheets) not so white,
sheets not so soft,
dulled, yellowed and stained;
made coarse by the physical need
to express our singular pallor
through our little body jostles.

Yet, within such masterings
there is no abatement towards
our collective contemplation
of the soft, curvaceous lines
of lovers, who
twist and turn
and conform to the discomfort
of the moments,
for such moments.