winterscape - poor elizabeth

 

 

poor elizabeth is cold

in a winter's day landscape

with fleeting clouds

and a drizzle

that leaches into your bones 

 

poor elizabeth lies deep beneath the soil

in a churchyard

somewhere in England 

her headstone black with lichen

poor elizabeth is a shadowy glance

in a frosted puddle

of

time

poor elizabeth is a loose ball of hay

or a cast of stickes

stranded in the road

poor elizabeth is cold

in a winter's day landscape

and she is dissolving

before our eyes