Starting

And then it starts
it starts again the 
start always does start 
at least it starts 
It starts like a 
cold January motor grinding 
and growling like a 
drunken giant righting himself 
like an engine with 
water in its lines
sputtering and spewing and
puffing and finally choking 
sending clouds of white 
skyward only to evaporate 
It always starts like 
this starting like this 
and ending like that 
too just like that