river cold
reaches up
frosting from below
All Of It
hope lives
in residence
with the darkness
Amidst Darkness
color and light
salve to the worried
world
Water’s Way
freeze and thaw
and shifting drifts
all leaning into life
Best Effort
when flowering
is impossible
bloom your leaves
With
the better shelter
from the storm
is found with others
Austerity
sharp edged
cold etches
light into dark
A Lingering
red canoe
a memory
of summer’s kiss
Land of Dreams
misty mountain
recurring dream
of the sleeping field
Kind Provision
bird box
in the sunflower field
surety of place
Luminary
snowing light
the maple tree’s
luminosity
Witness
in the still white
the field’s soul
lays bare
Thirst
berries quench
my January thirst
for color
Regeneration
birch heals
the loss
hosting a pine
Winter Abstraction
storm’s contemplation
each flake a memory
and time reorganized
Pentirsi
pentimento landscape
stark space made by winter
prior home of earliest spring
Early Company
infinity of blue
venus and the moon
visit before night
Discernment
sunlight and shadows
the only guests received
preservation of retreat
Carmine
stiletto petals
seamed like silk
timeless fashion vixen
Iddy-umpty
morse code of winter
dots and dash of ice
arctic opus written in cold
Blanketed
snow legislates
the quiet
of the woods
To End Is To Begin
fresh light
fell on New Year’s Day
shadows came and had their say
Mountainside
black bird rests
in the red winter rose
snowfall’s tableau
Confidence in Elders
counsel sought
of two great pines
knowledge shared in silence
River Birch In Snowfall
the quieting white
shrouds
December’s last days
Picnic
the table’s cloth
is made of snow
and set with sun
Blue Light and Dark
divine
blue sky
everything asparkle
Abridged
time crosses slowly
December’s snowy bridge
sojourn to the far side of remembering
Ma Donna
Madonna appeared
in a cairn of stones
offering prayer and blessing
Snowed Inn
no reservations needed
come on in and roost
beneath the snowy roof
