Winter is when the world is more like me
tired and quiet and craving comfort
Slow activities, slow days, unafraid of shelving energetic displays
or else hungry and wide-eyed for color and celebration
soaking it into the bones, rattling with green, gold, pink, red
fizzy with naive, admirable courage
high on the window view
of the many bright spots
of our fatigued world.

—from “Autism in the Wintertime” by #IzzyAmberWyskiel, published in #CapsuleStories Winter 2022 Edition http://capsulestories.com/winter-2022-edition