Winter Reverie

"Winter Reverie"

The photography of Sam Haddock

and the reflections of Deb Lambert

Enjoy a quiet moment...

Mullions and muntins break the winter sun

into regimented squares of yellow

that lay strewn across the pine boards

floating slowly, imperceptibly, toward

Grandma’s braided rug, hastening

to keep a western appointment

The sunlight seems fragile, thin and brittle,

not the searing, robust sun of last summer,

as if the biting winter wind had diluted

its golden warmth, while trying to insert itself

into every crack and crevice around every

window in this stalwart old dwelling

An ancient geranium, great-great grandchild

of a once-treasured plant,

blooms with joyful pink abandon,

unaware that, but for the autumn kindness

of its keeper, life would have ceased

with the commencement of hoarfrost

And tick, by inexorable tock,

the stately clock leads that geranium

to the verdancy of spring,

its melodious chimes announcing

the passage of time, a pleasant hourly

interruption of this winter reverie

Photos ©Sam Haddock, Jr. 2008

Poetry ©Deb Lambert 2010