Winter Heat / Will Dockery

Winter Heat

January sun
through the mist
blinding purity.

Summer breeze
down by the river
in dead of winter.

Ragged flight
of blackbirds
passing overhead,

peering down at me
on the border
looking up.

~~
Will Dockery, 2018
from Selected Poems, 1976-2019, 2019 

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Minette Layne, Red-wing blackbird migration. 
Flickr Creative Commons. Courtesy Nature up North

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