Writing inspired by the SWC creative writing prompt: Use 31 words to describe January.

31 Words to Describe January

by Tamara Raidt, Keith Gray, Jasmine Fassl, and Dagmar Bayer

By Tamara Raidt

ethereal whiteness/ immaculate time/

of the year/ but I am blue all along/

just counting/all the Mondays/ 

is an endless vertigo/ while longing for/

buzzing spring/ and lapis lazuli skies. 

By Keith Gray

Excitable intentions and first day promises as clean as fresh fallen snow. I’ll take bold, deep footprints and admire the patterns of my treading. The trick is not letting them melt.

By Jasmine Fassl

White snow → wet slush.

Parents on holiday: → mail.

→ plants.

→ making fire.

→ organising operation.

Great-grandma: → worry.

→ caring.

→ visiting.

Preparing: → anthology.

→ retreat.

Working every Saturday.

28 books.

Hopeful…

By Dagmar Bayer

January?

Once

you

start

a

task

it

triggers

an

insidious

avalanche,

“do

it

next

year”

is

over.

Let`s

hibernate

until

everyone

forgot

about

their

new

year`s

resolutions.

Hurray,

it`s

the

31st!

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