today’s forecast called for snow,
a prediction indifferent
to the calendar’s early border for spring,
as well as to my own personal feelings on the matter.
winter has these silences,
hidden between the refrains
of wind pushing past pine, through buildings, rattling
windows and bones.

—from “[swan song]” by #KatelynGrimes, published in #CapsuleStories Winter 2022 Edition: Hibernation. Grab your paperback or ebook copy: http://capsulestories.com/winter-2022-edition #earlyspring #poem #poetry #refrain #silence #writing

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Quivering, feathered limbs
cast up a murmuration.

Tree branches, now bare,
spider across the gray sky,
weaving and webbing upward.

Trunks may serve as charnels
for walnut shells,
the shade of a bird,
caps of acorns,
and desiccated leaves.

But inside, trees remain rivers,
flowing witnesses to winter.

They are most alive now:
still and waiting,
a resting awareness,
with tangled limbs
rooted in the sky.

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follow me to the maple forest
dusted in fresh fallen snow
to stillness
to silence
where air bites
the tip of your nose

we’ll tap sap
from xylem
in the slow flow of life
one drop at a time

there’s no hurry here

this is how
we find sweetness
in the dead of winter

—“Sugar Maple” by Erika Seshadri, published in #CapsuleStories Winter 2022 Edition: Hibernation. Grab your paperback or ebook copy: capsulestories.com/winter-2022-edition #winterpoem #winter #bookstodon #poetry #poem #maplesyrup