Hospitality

Sugar in the raw.

Turkey in the straw.

Early March. No Thanks-

giving. No frost.

I am venturing to Safeway 

to fetch sugar in the raw

in plain brown packets

in a pretty plain brown box

to gild your morning beverage

versus my plain morning beverage

unless you count almond milk

of a digestible ilk. 

The day, already glittering.

Other walkers host the road,

saying, "This is why we live here,"

Snow thousands of miles away.