Discovering Beauty in Everyday Life

THUNDERSNOW! EXTRA!  Our ever-inventive Weather Persons have discovered a new kind of sloppy.  It's  thundersnow!   It's thundering, It's slushy! It is drizzling, snowing, and sleeting!  The rain is freezing; the wind is pushing people around at 20 to 50 miles an hour! Yet nothing, no nothing, can keep our wet, windblown and frozen-fingered  New York  lovers from crossing the street,

Lights pushing, inching closer Magnetized in the falling rain From a Brooklyn to Manhattan Bridge, early summer

Lights driven into blurry splashes by the blotchy rain Car parked against the bushes on the beach road edge An old abandoned mailbox. Quiet now! Pushing through the bushes Hand snagged by a cat-like thorn. Surf reaching up, bubbles latching into the sand Swish-- ssssssssssss. swishsh--ssssssssssss Take the shortcut down. Alone - black water - barefeet Broken glass hidden in the clam shells. Grey dune house with wooden stairs Feel him watching - yellow smoke - ashy cigarette Examine an indentation in the sand Pretend it’s only a happenstance occasion Oh! Hello, I didn’t see you coming down the wooden stairs Or maybe, Ah! I thought that might be you Or, Oops! I lost a lot of somethings earlier along this stretch. Can you carry me back to a brand new safe-mode start?