temperature speaks in creaks
Winter’s bitter cold speaks to me in the wee hours, when I should be asleep.
Floorboards creak and moan about the chill until their plaint is repeated when the heat rises toward morning.
Lumber drawing breath, the house exhales silence upon my slumber-weary bones.
2022 Jan 15 -30°C
Roger Kenyon was North America’s first lay canon lawyer and associate director at the Archdiocese of Seattle. He was involved in tech (author of Macintosh Introductory Programming, Mainstay) before teaching (author of ThinkLink: a learner-active program, Riverwood). Roger lives near Toronto and offers free critical thinking and character development courses online.
“When not writing, I’m riding—eBike, motorbike, and a mow cart that catches air down the hills. One day I’ll have Goldies again.”
