Replaying memories

To burn them into our minds

Leave the rest behind

Cold air sweeping in

We shelter in the fire light

Almost out of reach

Polystyrene balls

Swirl in eddies round my head

The east wind brings snow

With bars made of guilt

Locks of insecurity

A prison of words

A lonely log smokes

When adding a companion

They two are ablaze

Bulrushes shed seed

Floats above the frozen sedge

Like moulting cats tails

On wide eagle’s wings

I tried to carry you up

It’s not enough