Shroud

Photo © 2017 Jennifer Wagner

Each season has its own offering.  Spring buds.  Summer glows.  Autumn colors.  Winter shrouds.  In winter, we hold contradictions up to the waning light, swirl them round the glass, sip.  Our losses are bettered in this reflection, when we can begin to see what good comes even after the fissured earth cracks again, when what remains softens, fills.

how silent now

this path strewn with jagged stones

a softening of snow

© 2017 Jennifer Wagner

New Year

*Cooper

Photo © Jennifer Wagner

Your collar, green,

his, blue.

You, so polite,

of course, he bites

(as new things do).

But how much he looks like you—

the curl of his tongue in Snoopy yawn,

stretched out

on the rug

where you lay, it feels,

only moments ago.

© 2017 Jennifer Wagner

 

A Quadrille for dVerse.  Happy 2017!

*New puppy Cooper is bringing delight to our hearts after the loss of our beloved Labrador retriever, Druke, in November.