Crystal Clear
Winter has frozen the smallest
movement outside,
cold creeps into the cabin
and I wake to tend a dying fire,
poking at coals, adding kindling.
A small whiff of smoke puffs
back at me and I can taste
the acrid woody warmth.
Hidden away from the clanking,
honking, rush of our yesterday
I breathe clean air
washed with a hint of pine.
The dawn catches no sound,
not the trickle of water
nor your absent snore
and from my frosted window
I see a crystal world
of unsoiled prospects. --- Judi Van Gorder
An old one posted a long time ago at the Connection I brought it here to archive.