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

He walks slowly to

a familiar place.

One hand on the park bench

he slowly lowers himself to rest.

He cups a flame, 

cigar smoke rises 

to his hat brim,

curls upward and over.

Frenzied grackels,

scurry over scraps with

scampering feet, 

rapidly changing.

Easily witnessed and

contented, he rises.

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