On Wintery Debates

Fogging the windows:
scholarly exhalations
hide the outside world.

On the Shortness of Days

Slanting winter sun.
Weathered college stone and slate -
half shadow, half light.

On Teaching

Understanding dawns
on this long winter morning -
eventually.

On Winter Writing

Sparrow in the snow.
A punctuation of tracks -
black ink on paper.

On Offprints

These wintery drifts,
papers heaped in my office -
how they fire my mind!

On the Possibilities of Renewal in Winter

Like the arctic hare,
with winter we don new coats:
corduroy or tweed?