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It’s Prosery Monday at dVerse: the prompt where we write prose based on some given lines of poetry. It can be flash-fiction or creative non-fiction; cannot exceed 144 words in total (sans title); must not be poetry (no versification, line breaks, metre, etc); and must include the poetry line given as the prompt, word for word, within the prose.

So here I am back home in Boston, missing the ever-sunny weather and warm days of our past two months in San Diego. Tomorrow it will be 50 degrees, but today and Sunday, the wind chill was 2 below zero!! Winter always fights to stick around in New England and spring struggles to bloom.

Folks are ready to get outside, see buds on trees, and desperately want to put away their heavy jackets. Many of us head for a local…