Winter Whispers

Pointed, brilliant drifts of snow

pierce the evening of winter.

Curving upward they arch

to a luminous, cyclopean moon.

A guest, humble, I stand here

beneath flickers in northern skies.

Icy grains atop snow drifts, 

move obediently for winter gusts.

One drift releases grains to its neighbor.

Tumbling crystals, indifferent, brush sodden drifts.

A rabbit stops to listen.

Paul Krapf image adapted

Old man and the park

Old man walks to

a familiar place with

hand on a park bench

he lowers himself to rest.

He cups a flame, 

cigar smoke 

rises to his hats brim,

curls upward and over.

The grackels,

scampering feet

scurry over scraps

nothing wasted. 

He watches as an orange sun rests, 

contented, the old man rises.

Another day in paradise.

Image by prostooleh on Freepik

Quote of the month - Illegal immigration and "due process"

I apologize for the poor granularity of the picture below which I snipped from a post on LinkedIn (my fault not theirs). For me, Stephen Miller's quote cuts to the core of the debate on due process and lllegal migration.

"The right of "due process" is to protect citizens from their government, not to protect foreign trespassers from removal. Due process guarantees the rights of a criminal defendant facing prosecution, not an illiegal alien facing deportation."

The Atlas Society post on LinkedIn