Kitchen window scene,
Almost same as yesterday.
Fluff of a squirrel's tail.
Slight creaking upstairs--
Aseema is awake now.
(The creaking has stopped).
Collette stands outside
While Olivia munches.
And life goes on.
Jumble of cut wood
Lying in the snow bank
Providing no heat.
Torn fence and brambles
Are embraced in a tangle--
Lost expectations.
In the frozen woods
No breeze stirs the evergreens--
Even birds are still.
Roadside pond is still:
Transparent water replaced
With opaque gray ice.
Bowing to the road
Evergreen sapling endures
Its winter trial.
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