Dormant

A four foot snow bank!

Slippery, shiny words packed around our neglected voices,

have forgotten that spring 

arrives. What may look 

dead and dull, hides 

life and growth flowing from 

roots deep in the soil of home.

“Our power is in our homeplace, in our roots..”

~ Sylvia Linsteadt, The Wild Folk Rising

Sleepy

The evening grows late. 

Great yawns remind me 

that my body clock works. 

Time ticks inexorably onward 

as evening grows later still.

“A well -spent day brings happy sleep.”

~ Leonardo da Vinci

From the Car Window

Silent hills, blanketed in snow that drifted across the lake, through barren bush, 

found the eye of my camera 

to be frozen in time.

“Photography takes an instant out of time, 

altering life by holding it still.”

~ Dorothea Lange, documentary photographer