snow-covered bridge
     following in
     my son’s footsteps

dead calf
a mother licks
the wind

two-quilt night —
creak of the firebox
as we settle

slow rain
a night
of seed dreams

In one year
work life ends—drizzle
with the rainbow

drifting snow
lambs inside the barn
inside the ewes

snowed in —
doing the jigsaw puzzle
upside down

midnight breeze
through magnolia branches —
a sigh escaping

winter’s end
the dreamcatcher’s web
coated with dust

funeral day —
still I hesitate
to open Mom’s purse