Gale warning    hail warning
Sky sifts    high drifts
Finding bright blinding white
Snowball    snowfall
Moonscape    snowscape
Frostbite dost bite
Rococo swirls    hot cocoa curls
Icy glove    spicy love
Huddle in    cuddle in
Rock salt    clocks halt

©2006, Barbara Reiher-Meyers

Leaden lake, silent and dark;
coaxed to ripple under Winter’s touch.
I watch as a fragile feather
                           bobs
                              along
                                       lakeshore.

Crows rummage through
                       remnants
                                 of snow
       on February’s lawn.

A dead leaf, imprisoned in chain link fence imitates
          the flutter
                           of a bird.

©2006, Barbara Reiher-Meyers

Barbara Reiher-Meyers is a Long Island, New York poet, board member of the Long Island Poetry Collective. She curates the Long Island poetry calendar for Poetz.com, runs monthly workshops in Ronkonkoma, sends weekly emails of local poetry events, and has edited several volumes of poetry. Sounds Familiar is the title of her first book.

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