After The Storm

Image by Tess Kincaid

After the Storm


You stop the car
along the frozen Scioto
and point to deer tracks
on the ice. I imagine a timid doe
coaxed across the brittle river
by her partner, in naked,
fragile love. Alone,
in the exposition of cold,
we are Lara and Zhivago,
enveloped by lust and white,
on a silent ride to Varykino.
Reins lace your gloved fingers,
my hands; all of me in your pocket.
We thrust, slow, unable to see past
the crosshatch of blue ash
and sycamore, catalysts for hope,
and wonder how this flux
can remain without time, unbodied,
this fresh, uncorrupted rush,
the calling card of winter.



Tess Kincaid
January, 2011

Posted over on her site Willow Manor
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