Winter Musings
by Leonora Simonovis
I’d forgotten the sounds a furnace makes, the clicks and clacks and clanks, as if saying “I’m here, I’m alive,” the house’s molecules groaning in pleasure. Maybe that’s why older people want nothing more than to be in the sun, so they can feel what it’s like to have a well-articulated, oiled machine that complies, that says yes instead of not now, maybe later, tomorrow.
Leonora Simonovis is a bilingual poet, educator, and the author of Study of the Raft, winner of the 2021 Colorado Prize for Poetry. Her work has appeared in SWWIM, Verse Daily, The Hopper, About Place Journal, and others. She lives in upstate New York with her family.