Amazing what a poet-blogger can learn in a year. Enjoy my repost of “A Winter’s Gift at a Vacation’s End”.

Winter’s Gift at a Vacation’s End

A layer of snow rests on the deck. Just a dusting. The reflection of tile on the storm door blends with that thin layer of snow.

 
Light tries to breach the banks of snow clouds that fill the sky. The same clouds that promise more snow now that teachers and students return.

silhouette
of bare maples
twilight

First published in Image Curve, January 5, 2017