Zero Holding

by Robyn Sarah





I grow to like the bare
trees and the snow, the bones and fur
of winter. Even the greyness
of the nunneries, they are so grey,
walled all around with grey stones —
and the snow piled up on ledges
of wall and sill, those grey
planes for holding snow: this is how
it will be, months now, all so still,
sunk in itself, only the cold alive,
vibrant, like a wire — and all the
busy chimneys — their ghost-breath,
a rumour of lives warmed within,
rising, rising, and blowing away.


please note: photo art by Patti Hinton

Comments

  1. Alas, even this beautiful poem cannot make me warm to winter.

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  2. Ha! I know. "Grow to like" might be a bit of hyperbole :>)

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  3. Ah! can't wait for spring....smiles

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