Thursday, February 27, 2014

The Pastels of Winter


Brighter than the humid sunstruck southern coast

The day is winter's wholly and with me in it

Returned to the shortest month's northern pastels

The faint blue sky in snowfall

The pinked fields of hidden sunrise

The chalked grays of the wooded hills

The powdered wind billowing through the treeline

A man in wool and canvas happy to be home.