Winter - a photo on Flickriver

Winter

            I was honoured to have had a poem sent to me that was inspired by this painting: 

The silence of snow

 (after Winter by Paul Jackson)

 

fallen snow lies in mounds
like my dark-bellied sea
carrying you into being –

 weightless snow
is your spider-web breath,
your shouts of excitement
at a peacock’s feather,
your tears as you fell,
blood on the ground –

 blue crystalline snow
is your doubled-up laughter,
your songs with a hairbrush,
the thwump from your rooms,
your swimming pool sessions
which turned into sea strokes,
our evenings under a Grecian moon –

 silent snow
is the death of clouds,
flakes draped like spent parachutes
over black oak trees –

 melted snow
is that doorless barn,
storing echoes.

Julie Didcot-Williams 
   

Taken on: October 31, 2023

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