The Southern Hemisphere basks in heat and drought while we
deal with frozen pipes, hoarfrost, chilling wind, rain, and
winter beauty …
PRAIRIE COLD
hours after sun dies in ice
stars glitter from white ground 
maples crisp with frost
hockey plays the street
those days freeze
behind my eyelids
as snow falls
in this northern winter
first published in Hudson View
‘A Bedroom of Searchlights’: poetry. This collection draws a picture of the poet’s divorced mother, an artist with two children, who struggled with poverty, war, and the realities of daily life, yet still found beauty and comfort in her garden, and her art. From Inanna Publications, May 2016.
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