The Winter Garden

Photo: (c) Jamie K. Reaser

Is it possible to tend snowflakes?

This my question

On a bitter winter morning when,

for five days slow in their progression,

the only human-made sound is

that of my breath feeding

the trees.

If the white meadow

and the white woods

were to become my garden,

Oh, I’d be rich in harvest!

And, why not?

Isn’t what we harvest of this world,

a choice?

Could it not be an entire mountainside

of singular, crystalline snowflakes

that sustains me?

Yes.

Yes!

I want to be this kind of gardener:

The one carrying

baskets full of beauty,

and imagination.

©2013-2016/Jamie K. Reaser

From "Winter: Reflections by Snowlight" 
Published by Hiraeth Press
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