Verses for Winter

Winterlandscape with Skaters and Bird Trap by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1565. (Public Domain/Wikimedia)

A bit of snow and ice, and dreams

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A bit of snow and ice, and dreams

Afterimage

Light snow
in early morning:
afterimage
of a dream
whose meaning
you might or
might not
know.

 ***

Raven

Poe
would have admired
this raven
eating from
a woman’s hand—
the noir of it
in new snow,
the fears
they each
let go.

***

River

Laughter
of skaters
breaks across
river ice.
Overwintered,
I dream of
summer’s
pleasure craft.

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