Winter Solstice - Barbara Armstrong

[Lawrence Robinson]

   Winter Solstice

  Winter lifts her sleek baton
   poised for the prelude
   but for now her orchestra
   lies dormant in the chill.

   Bushes dressed in crystal chimes
   stand ready for their cues.
   Staccato rhythms printed on the
   gelid lake mark time in silence.

   At the south end of the slide
   suspended pleats of  snow
   begin to shrug and glide
   teetering toward glissando.

   The darkest nightfall of the year
   no moon or galaxies appear.
   Watch   as flawless snowflakes
   drift by on a raft of porchlight. 
    
   They will transform to
    simple water spots
    before too long  but
    how they dazzle before they run.

    Listen    the overture has begun.
                                                                  
	- Barbara Armstrong
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