Hocky Hats

Today the people were wearing hockey hats, 
They were bundled in puffy coats.
Their masks could conceivably have been 
devices for keeping warm. 

I recorded these details in a small blue book:
the hockey hats, 
the puffy coats, 
and the masks that seemed,
for the first time, 
to belong, 

evidence of the coming winter, 
of a resigned and cozy populous.