I enter the solstice
to hear snow falling
where winter leads the way
Along a childhood memory
snow labored painfully
sweeping the landscape
with heavy shoulders
of white surrender
It seemed a great distance
from Grandmother’s house
to the barn
where the icy sky
bellowed a deep freeze
over shivering fields
of forgotten cattails
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from my sixth book-length manuscript
©dah / dahlusion 2013, 2016 a.r.r.
“Cattails” was first published in
‘Jelllyfish...
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