One change already for Scene in Winter Jill

[jill stockinger]

Thank you, Bob! I had gone back and forth on using "the tree" in the third line. You have clinched it for me.

Jill

Scene in Winter

 

Puffs of white snow clasp the towering

evergreen which the tree sloughs off

gradually, waving laden branches

in inconstant wind, scratching against

rough air, feeling relief to have its limbs

rising unencumbered, feathery light

pine needles bouncing in the needle-sharp

cold of winter, flakes of snow flying off them,

white spray falling gently through the air,

glittering down and down.

 

                       Jill Stockinger