Those hardest to erase
are the fleeting memories
that do not invade
but brush against
our conciousness

like a diffident handshake
or a falling star
or the startled wingbeats
of a partridge
flushed from a winter thicket

where the boughs still clatter
with the spray of snow.

Wanda Sobieska

 

WANDA SOBIESKA is a violinist and poet in Cleveland, Ohio.