Terrific-

On a January evening this is what I am working on tonight:

Winter Sense

Whispering snow secretly descends
I did not know you were there
Chiding the lampposts
Scolding the sidewalks

Why did you come,
To tell us your woes
Where are the Junipers
And scampering squirrels

What of feasts hidden in drifts
Telling secrets of their own
Cloaked in unbearable lightness
How quiet are your ways
These [dark] January nights

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The season of death
Of winter repose, they say
But what of the chickadees
Taking turns as they feed
And the juncos flitting on snow-crusted skeletons
Left by the lilac and forsythia
Azalea and bayberry

Vultures silently grazing from the sky
Looping through lonely echoes left by woodpeckers
Toiling for a meal
Pesky skunks hugging the ground
Foraging and fattening for
February’s mating

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Your shimmering array
Dazzling in the morning sun
The chill
crisp and abrupt

You have enchanted me
Awakened my tongue to taste your song
My heart to hear your soul
My hands to see your stealth
Here I am
I am alive among the living!