tea (a bit of rose congou, maybe a teaspoon of vanilla bean-infused yunnan, a couple teaspoons assam)

honey (local wildflower)

dollop of heavy cream

maybe a quarter-oz orange cognac (bauchant)

bit less than an oz of bourbon (four roses)

Naked 16 - 21

Halfway into the nascent light I noticed, on my morning walk, a pre-sunrise twilight making my wood-trek viable. I walked to the sound of cold snow squeaking underneath my feet. not yet spring even if later I hear the first “di-da” of tits greeting the day of candlemass. Minute by minute the battle for daylight is once again being won. zigzag in the snowtracks traversing the meadow —the snow…