January 15, 2011 – north light

winter ferry
wind biting the way
home

cool blink of January sun ~ green brown fields of Galloway rolling curving ~ undulating ~ heart shouts wild alive

morning snow
bearing witness
robin song

a bitter east wind, cutting the day;
fields, hard with a scattering of snow;
January has the earth in her grip; first snowdrops bloom

washing dishes, watching birdsong, red-headed goldfinch swings

brown mud fields
wind scudding clouds
snowdrops dance in a shaft of frozen light

north light