I do my best

Maybe spring will come.

I do my best

To focus on the blue sky

The cloudless blue sky

Oh yes

And the sun.

I do my best

To remember the arrival

Of daylight savings time.

This weekend.

We lose the hour we gained

Last fall.

It will seem lighter

Longer

Or morning won’t lighten

As quickly.

I do my best

To focus on the sun

To appreciate it

Exactly the way the cat does

Simple and full

And now it’s time

For a nap.

He does not care

What the clock says,

Only that the sun

Is there.

Extra hour

Maybe my brain will catch up eventually.  It*s not simply a change in barometric pressure that does it. Sometimes it*s something as simple as going off of daylight savings time.  I*ll have to gradually re-calibrate meals and bedtime.  Maybe by the time the winter solstice arrives, and the light begins coming back, my brain will arrive with it.

The extra hour of light

This morning

Translated to darkness at 5 PM.

It all gets refigured

On the other end

Anyway.

I sit in the dark,

Realize I am counting

Again.

This time I count an extra hour of daylight

In the morning

But still

It feels like darkness fell

More than an hour earlier

Tonight.

I think the world spun faster.

I swear the world spun faster.

It left daylight

In the dust.

Winter visitor

It*s time for Daylight Savings Time to take a vacation, like snowbirds, south.  The extra hour of light arrives Sunday morning.  I have made up the guest room with fresh sheets.

I am glad

For the extra hour of light.

She arrives

Sunday morning

A winter visitor

Welcome  

As warm-baked cinnamon rolls

Hot coffee

Cat rumbles solid

On the lap;

A winter visitor

Embraced at the door

Shown in

From the dark and cold

Coat hung in the closet

Boots by the door;

A winter visitor

Invited to stay

Til spring.

Change comes hard

Yep.  The arrival of Daylight Savings Time.  A little more sun on this end of things would be helpful.  Very helpful.

Going to bed last night

Was easier than leaving

The bed this morning.