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[1/27/22]

  • Writer: Penny Harter
    Penny Harter
  • Feb 2, 2022
  • 1 min read

Today, we're on the cusp of intense cold and a possible major winter storm, tomorrow night into Saturday---or not. Models are all over the place. Please be safe, everyone along the East Coast.

And this morning I'm moved to share a haiku sequence I wrote back in early February 2017. It kind of echoes my feelings these winter days of lingering pandemic. _________________

Pasture Pastiche


winter afternoon— overlapping gold and gray in the wheat field


distant train whistle— missing you more when the wind rises


barbed wire on the roadside fence— it's uneven weave


warped now the cardboard on which you drew my Valentine


snowy farmhouse roof sheep in the corral—both whiter in the dusk


not since childhood the warmth of a dog beside me in bed


beyond the fields gauzy clouds veil forests, lakes, and darker hills


tracing the patchwork corners time has frayed— grandmother's quilt


above this spinning Earth spheres upon spheres stitch galaxies together


drifting toward sleep I ride my spirit wolf into the Great North Woods


(c) 2022 Penny Harter

 
 
 

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