Long winters spent sagging

Watching us live out our fleeting lives

Reaching for warmer hopes

And breathing new life all the while.

Long rasping calls, puncuated by brief  “   ”

Then start over, once again, and repeat  “   ”

Practiced patience makes perfect, but

I’ll stick to greens (for now)

23 years in the making

Revisiting a moment well-known

And oft-overlooked

Dizzying depths dropping off on each side

Twice an excellent status, when personified

Darker than death, and classified as

Double Diamonds (Suicide)