on wintering

de-pathologizing the sad that can come with the dark

in this gathering of women
several mention that they, or someone they love,

are impacted by seasonal affective disorder.
I know this is a real thing,

that depression is real, that a lot
of the whole fucking DSM-V is real.

those diagnostic categories, as much
as they fail to capture the mythic proportions,

the archetypal thrum of the despair that can
come wi…