What do you do when winter weather is unbearably miserable?

I suspect that there is an inexhaustible list of things that we must do or elect to do that invariably will fall into one of two categories…painful or pleasurable. Having to go to work using public transportation; having to drive or walk on slushy, ice-slick roads or sidewalks, or not wearing enough clothes even if you are packed on several layers can easily be categorized.  The pleasurable actions probably outweigh the negatives even if we can’t achieve all of those things that we really want to do.  Regardless of where our personal decisions wind up, in those moments, we make “next time” decisions as to what we will do when we are faced with similar situations in the future

For many of us, reading is one of those things we pursue when we are safe and comfortable in our homes. Books, magazines, chapbooks, e-zines.  We read on paper or online.  And I am reminded of a comment my younger brother made to me years ago about my propensity to read “all the time.”  He said, “You even read matchbook covers!” (Remember matchbooks that were widely available for free when you purchased a pack of cigarettes or any tobacco product way back in the day.)

We hope you read aaduna’s entire forthcoming winter 2017-18 issue, and to further prompt you here are two excerpts, this one from Lindsay Yarn’s poem, “Sweet Tea”

Lindsey Yarn (photo provided)

I spilled over into the mouths of every man who pointed

at my hips, said they were too big for my age.

My tea was too sweet for them, too southern and slang.

Ya’ll ain’t gon’ never

pin “ghetto” to my chest with the pointed end of a chicken wing.

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Aishwarya Raghunath (photo provided)

Aishwarya Raghunath presents her “Avenue Five” and here is snippet from that work.

One mile past the kirkyard down the lane,
I saw two lone lamps
each maimed, each immobile.
Grey and grizzled, they stood by the street.
They stood through their final days
and fell an inch each day. 

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Miserable weather?  Consider a good read.

WATCH for aaduna's winter issue LAUNCHING SOON!

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