Poetry

Three Winter Miniatures

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Very short poems for a long winter.

Flagrant

Flagrant
disregard for winter:
the Canada geese stay.
Like my heart,
itself a former
vagrant.

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Pheasant

Ring-necked
pheasant in the front yard!
A rough winter’s
consolation — though not
for everything.

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Solstice

Souls, this
is it: light’s
acolytes
turn inward
at the winter
solstice.

Jessica Hornik is the managing editor of National Review magazine and the author of the poetry collection A Door on the River. Her poems have appeared in The New Criterion, The Times Literary Supplement, The Atlantic, and many other publications.
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