Boxing Day 2022. As I write this, I am boxed in, stuck inside the house thanks to a couple of inches of new snow that fell this morning, topping off a layer of ice that’s been with us since Winter Storm Elliott moved in Thursday night. . . .

3 A.M.

Only my hand

is asleep,

but it’s a start.

—Billy Collins, “3 A.M.”

What the mind

keeps, it keeps.

—Andrea Cohen, “Roosevelt Dargon”