If the Wind Stopped

Commenting on the temperature
to teens and pre-teens
on the warmer air today;
But they focused on the wind
and the cold therein

One of them posed the thought
of the wind,
that it should stop,
and go away

I, adult that I am,
trying to conjure wisdom
that which is
caught on the breeze
that which would fail if it died


January 12, 2010
conversation at Pembroke Village School
waiting for the Three Rivers School bus
January 12, 2010