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Between Green and Winter Fade
by Laura A. Powers

July 30, 2020 Contributed By: Laura A. Powers

Barren wheat-fields are quite exquisite in winter—

just one clear night the wind slants the snow

to smooth blue—another morning rises.

 

Clipped long to disused skis, I carve rickety

tracks, like fontanelles, over and across subnivean layers

where lower-animals—a  mouse, a vole—

can only survive and not deliciously live

such a winter as this.

 

Once, I wished I was that vole, with delicate

vole-bones—some small furbearing animal that knows

it’s own time. I’d shamble out there and give

myself up and never consider the wheat lying

somewhere beneath me like summer.

 

 

Filed Under: Poetry Posted On: July 30, 2020

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