17.

Another Sunrise

Flat dark glass beside flat dark glass.

Frost flowers etched silver gray.

Screech owls clattering.

Mist swirls in patterns unseen.

Hoof-stuck stones ring.

Branches crosshatched in first light.

Sun gaps emerge along the eastern ridge.

A shadow line on the far western slope

descends slowly into the cove.

Glittering fragments coalesce…

bright world resurrected yet again

in the dark of the year.