A Cold  Blue Day

The day is frosty blue the asphalted lane has

goose pimples and shudders under my feet,

yet muscular ants are active in fine cracks

Snowfall in the black forest of Germany,

must be a pretty postcard picture, black ice

Amsterdam’s canals, a less enticing sight

In Moscow people freeze to death and there’s

not a red flag seen, when it was snapping in

the wind, prisoners froze bitterly in Siberia. 

An elderly man came out of the supermarket

he had bought a blanket for the freezing gipsy

woman by its door; humanity isn’t dead yet.

~Jan Oscar Hansen~