Winter means

 

... a layering of clothes,
and needing to molt
throughout the day -
one skin when inside home;
another changed into
for afternoon strolls;
and yet another
when heading to
the neighborhood Kohl’s.

And then,
there is the constant fidgeting
of tying of shoelaces
by gloved hands,
an annoyingly arduous task.

Few months into the winter
dance dreams of
greener pastures.