WINTER STORM

A dense and fine drizzle

casts a shade in the vale

and mute droplets glimmer in the oaks.



Finches hopping around

in the branches

keep bullying the remaining leaves.



Their breasts are only more rusty

and the barred wings

send streaks of white across the twigs.



Now a huge and dark sail falls from the clouds

Thunder growls and rides the waves

flooding the lanes with broken boughs.

                                                        mp