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

Under sheets of dust

Tangled possessions await

The impossible

Under muddy fields

Curled up among sprawling roots

New lives are springing

I remember trees

Leaves, bees, keys, skis, ease, sea breeze

We see Pleiades

One sleepy eye ball

In a long unbroken gaze

Between life and dreams

Through long winter nights

Through cold and hunger and tears

I kept you alive

Low winter sunshine

Radiates through thin willows

A giant cobweb

Dusky light through trees

A sepia photograph

The light starts to stretch

Day rolls into night

Snowflakes fall like eiderdown

Heavy eyelids close

Tear down this old house

Wild fields brimming with hope

The answer is yes

A lonely old house

Stands watch over wild fields

Waiting for answers