How January is a winner

“Later on the way to the town where
We worked while the heater
Wheezed fitfully and the windshield
Showed indifference to the defroster
He'd turn to me and say that
The two best things in this world
Were hot coffee and winter sunrises.’’

— From “January,’’ by Baron Wormser (born 1948), a former poet laureate of Maine