Friday, January 21, 2011

31 Winter Poems: Poem 16



Who were you in my dream?


Were you the owl flying so low over our car at dusk

or the red-tailed hawk in the tree on the lane

eager to show us how easy it is to fly?

Were you the snow-covered brook

murmuring past the house that Ira built

waiting for us to notice how ebb and flow

still smooth the stones even through the thickest ice?

Or were you that gentle curl of birch bark

lying near the path,

reminding us again how life comes full circle?


I keep asking but you don’t answer,

who were you in my dream?



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