Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Winter Dream

The woods are still.
Branches are brown, bare
arms, fingers, and twigs.
The ice shows no signs of thaw,
the land sleeping, dreaming
of shapes, forms, colors, times,
access to which is denied.
Or perhaps it is thinking
of epochs, the grand design
that winter plays close to the vest.
I do not know, I do not know.
I tramp through snow,
my head lowered, my thoughts quiet.
I am allowed to pass across a frozen stream,
though it is possible, I suppose,
that I am merely part of the dream.

~William Hammett


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