valentines 2007
we
were
dressed
to
visit
friends
the plans failed and it’s now dinner for two
just me and you
softly talking and making plans
woman and man plans
feeling oddly ancient but spry
glimmer in the eye
love is so much more
than we ever can define
quiet peace by fire place
as rumors of the pending storm swirl
the cardinal couple
not natural to our winter
just outside the kitchen window
do they wonder from
whence come the seeds
we wonder if they do
me and you as we sip coffee
in the chilly house we try to heat
with a stove too small to warm it all
our flame must flourish
with kindling and tending vents and ash
against rough weather
we convert cast iron to our sun
about which we revolve
on occasion in mute appreciation
each piece of wood handled five times
from stack to barrow to cellar to canvas
we move our woodcutter’s tree
until we feed the orange glow
and so it goes
our life’s flame fed
many steps and colder nights
there will be in our winter
it may one day be all we can abide
one piece of wood at a time
a little heat
silent
sweet
the plans failed and it’s now dinner for two
just me and you
softly talking and making plans
woman and man plans
feeling oddly ancient but spry
glimmer in the eye
love is so much more
than we ever can define
quiet peace by fire place
as rumors of the pending storm swirl
the cardinal couple
not natural to our winter
just outside the kitchen window
do they wonder from
whence come the seeds
we wonder if they do
me and you as we sip coffee
in the chilly house we try to heat
with a stove too small to warm it all
our flame must flourish
with kindling and tending vents and ash
against rough weather
we convert cast iron to our sun
about which we revolve
on occasion in mute appreciation
each piece of wood handled five times
from stack to barrow to cellar to canvas
we move our woodcutter’s tree
until we feed the orange glow
and so it goes
our life’s flame fed
many steps and colder nights
there will be in our winter
it may one day be all we can abide
one piece of wood at a time
a little heat
silent
sweet
we
were
dressed
to
visit
friends
the plans failed and it’s now dinner for two
just me and you
softly talking and making plans
woman and man plans
feeling oddly ancient but spry
glimmer in the eye
love is so much more
than we ever can define
quiet peace by fire place
as rumors of the pending storm swirl
the cardinal couple
not natural to our winter
just outside the kitchen window
do they wonder from
whence come the seeds
we wonder if they do
me and you as we sip coffee
in the chilly house we try to heat
with a stove too small to warm it all
our flame must flourish
with kindling and tending vents and ash
against rough weather
we convert cast iron to our sun
about which we revolve
on occasion in mute appreciation
each piece of wood handled five times
from stack to barrow to cellar to canvas
we move our woodcutter’s tree
until we feed the orange glow
and so it goes
our life’s flame fed
many steps and colder nights
there will be in our winter
it may one day be all we can abide
one piece of wood at a time
a little heat
silent
sweet
the plans failed and it’s now dinner for two
just me and you
softly talking and making plans
woman and man plans
feeling oddly ancient but spry
glimmer in the eye
love is so much more
than we ever can define
quiet peace by fire place
as rumors of the pending storm swirl
the cardinal couple
not natural to our winter
just outside the kitchen window
do they wonder from
whence come the seeds
we wonder if they do
me and you as we sip coffee
in the chilly house we try to heat
with a stove too small to warm it all
our flame must flourish
with kindling and tending vents and ash
against rough weather
we convert cast iron to our sun
about which we revolve
on occasion in mute appreciation
each piece of wood handled five times
from stack to barrow to cellar to canvas
we move our woodcutter’s tree
until we feed the orange glow
and so it goes
our life’s flame fed
many steps and colder nights
there will be in our winter
it may one day be all we can abide
one piece of wood at a time
a little heat
silent
sweet
Posted: Sat - February 24, 2007 at 01:19 PM
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