“Winter Shade,” New Era, Aug. 1986, 31
Winter Shade
City skyline in a winter-gray wash
Tree shadows of old-age brown
compose a languid commentary
about the season’s stay.
Cold is not a stranger here—
only an unwelcome guest
who moved in quite long ago
and eagerly unpacked.
The one-thing-to-another of day-after-day life
goes on.
People in heavy little “putt-putt” cars
swim as lentils
in the bottom of a soup bowl
left to sit too long.
But somewhere,
just behind a curling corner
of watercolor gray,
a wind waits impatiently
to blow the winter page away.
Photo by Stacy Holiday
Photo by Lynn Howlett