sun scurrying south for the winter

inches per morning

along my eastern horizon

cold season is milder here

on the Pacific coast than i remember

growing up in America’s Midwest

when at times the snowdrifts

were far taller than i was

so i question Sol’s need to bask

in the tropics

but Science exhorts that i am

anthropomorphizing

that the sun is not a ‘he’ making

choices but a physical mass following

laws of physics resulting from its limp

or wobble left over from collision

with sister planet Theia

i guess even planet siblings

do not always play nice