10. Temperature Change

There's still two feet of
frozen mess out there,
but today the sun
paid us a visit with its golden
smile and smooth promises
like some charismatic deadbeat Dad
already planning his exit.
It's good to see him nonetheless,
and in his light I saw
two translucent flying bugs
nuzzling each other and
in one of the city's mighty oaks,
two squirrels,
one with a lively twitching tail,
chasing each other up and down,
and I didn't need a
biology degree
to understand.