Bear the frost of night and cold,
Bear the burn and form of lust,
Taste the all raucous chill I

Today I am unsettled,

Edgy, almost nervous.

A thought not quite formed,

Lurks behind my

The sea brings hope, again
and again, it breaks on the rocks to touch
divided nations in

the storm came
doors were

I have not seen a rainbow yet
I have seen the sun,
The moon, the stars,
A jagged flash of

From a clenched Mediaeval iron fist,

a skeletal finger of sunlight
flicks -

switches on the

The leaves continue to rustle in their lifelong tussle with the wind,
The ground, so harshly

Swathes of time between us, pulling
space stretching, our world escaping
through the seams we’re

A mismatch conceived in disparate places
arctic trough spills down from the Rockies
humid air

Earthsong,
along with body tempest,
Sweet nodes meander amid trees
abreast with life,
standing

As the wind blows
Across the field
Through the trees
I begin to ponder
Whose spell I’m

Beat down you wretched restless rain
And spit the heavens dry 
Bring forth the blood and sweat and

Deep in the forest.

A coat of snow.

An outline of sun,

Peeping through branches.

Zero

The yuletide card to paint,
A blanket drapes the landscape.
Clouds above lowering and laden, so

The car starts to slow its pace,

Weaving down a trail with bumps in the ground,

A deserted

Tiny leaves settle on the ground

Rustic-brown and covered in mud

The wind is silent

The

splattering of rain
clouds
can’t get warm indoors
restless

a breeze seeps in through a secret

The frost creeps up each morning
a faint coating on the pavements
slippery but barely

Winter, the longest season of all.
Deceptive sunlight.
A hint of frost.
Snow may fall sooner or