Lullaby


   Close your  eyes

   and I will sing you the impossibility of infinity,

   How bright and lovely stars you see

   burning in the night sky might be long gone,

   how would we know,

  That we are alone in the universe,

  And our own sun is dying.


  Close your eyes,

  Let me sing to you.




Deep Winter - second draft

The water breaks; A bird's wing, Shafts and quills intact along the shards of ice. Too heavy to lift, I tip the basin up and water drain...