WINTER NIGHT - GERMANY 1981

Snow whispered down

Through frosty air,

Slipping and sliding,

Among the stark

Leaf empty limbs

Of black sleeping trees,

All around

The white of winter,

Illuminated

By the moon,

Earlier snow tracing

In silver white,

Limbs and walls,

Rolling little hills,

In a picture postcard

Sort of way.

• Donovan Baldwin