Today is the 25th anniversary of Bernadette Mayer's "Midwinter Day"-- (please excuse reformatting)

"...Sophia's mittens come off,
The disappearing scene from a dream I'd remember is lost
To comparisons of past exertion for the slight Main Street hill,
I blink at seeing, being seen a little
I wonder why we write at all
These trees have seen this all before
But they are glad of an encore"