January Diary - small poems from everyday things

Day 2:

The Photograph

Bleak winter blue of hazy sky.

Flat horizon far away and featureless.

Low rectangle of brick and ginger tile. Nearby

the wooden garage like a child’s construction:

a triangle a square. The drive

a rhombus of perspective lines.

A conifer stands like a guardsman in a bearskin.

I know this is a home with warmth inside.

I’ll soften this geometry, paint reality.


© Janice Windle 2013

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