Thirdprize winner, poetry
Answers Night
in
Snow
oh wanderer.
falls,
Whither are you bound?
Snow
falls in
Clouds
patient light;
drift lazily in
and through one another.
Light dims as the sun nears his Filling the air
Light
oils
And
rest.
with violets and roses-
crushing the azure spirits of day.
opening the
brilliant light of night.
wrap and
Families of otter
In the knot of
curl themselves
warmest family
love.
Foxes entwine deep in their dens-
Warmth
of family staving off winter's touch.
Deer yard in the midst of forest glades. Does, fawns and stags together.
Lonely wolves
And
call
out to one another
the high places
and valleys echo with
Mighty oaks standing naked in the
their song.
forest night
Are cloaked in warmth by coats of ice. Maples proudly
lift
And embrace The Cottonwood
their
the
arms
snow
to the
sky
that falls to greet them.
flashes her prismatic coat;
Delicate fringes of ice decorate her linnbs
Through They
the lonesome whispers of the tell
each other of those
who
wind
dwell in their shelter.
