Twinkle Toes, Stephen Bauhart (December 2025)

Twinkle Toes

When spring-wind blows and winter snows
Have overstayed the season’s lease
And the twinkle in my toes
Must wander — where? God only knows
What steps will make them be at peace —

Stutter-steps shake winter shivers
‘Twixt crocus blooms across the prairie
When feeling free one’s fancy quivers
Through feet that float like spring melt-fairy
That rides the warm winds, light and airy,

Amidst the snowdrifts ever shrinking
The sunbeams, and the dewdrops, drinking,
Taking in the season, thinking,
Of spring that’s springing, growing, chancing,
That ice might never slow my dancing!

If odd chill breeze reminds me, then,
Of winter winds, I’ll think not when,
And worry not, choose not to know
That seasons come, but also go —
I’ll dance as blossoms fall like snow!