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Shadows on the Snow
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This moment: 9 am driving the kids to school today
This Moment inspired by Amanda Blake Soule at soulemama.com
On the Museum Steps
Rest here with me.
Sit down on the marble steps, tell me what you’re thinking.
After we sketch the sculptures, after we write poetry
in notebooks, right before we leave for dinner–
Rest here with me.
Sit down on the marble steps, tell me one more time,
what you’re thinking.
Trees in December
Trees undress at nightfall,
we watch them silently and turn away.
River View
A thousand days can come and go
and I will never take you for granted.
What is it about you…
that draws my attention every morning?
Your solid foundation, not a brick out of place,
your dental work, pristine and perfectly aligned,
your keystones distributing the weighty stress of the world
or your intricately carved cycloptic window?
I am captivated by the structure of your character and look away
in time to miss the green light turn to red once again.
November Rose
Two days before the storm arrived,
I admired your shy, blushing beauty.
Surely you must have known it was
dangerous, foolhardy, reckless even.
How could I later resist looking
for your velvety petals in the snow?
Morning Walk
Walking at the blue hour of morning,
wet and cold and almost foreboding–
I hear the train in the distance…
It races past with a steamy, pulsating pace
that blows my red scarf onto my face–
I pause to pick up the terrified pup.
Garden in the Fall
Soft, velvety shades of silver in the autumn garden–
the memory of your touch will linger in my mind
through the coming winter.
Wet November
Rain falls quietly on leaves–
grey skies embrace me
in the moist, cold dampness
of a wet November day.
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