Snow Dream
by Catherine Coundjeris
Childhood treks through the
snow enchanted woods discovered
animal footprints traveling
past a stream to the great white oak
Old and big the last of its kind.
A circle of white birch
raised graceful arms and bare heads
to the steel grey sky,
dancing among the buried leaves
under the new drifts of snow.
At the brink of the woods
deer stood still watching me and
I them as sleek crows circled,
calling to one another.
A fox nearby hunkered down.
Now I follow old trails...
above a red-tailed hawk hunts.
Snow birds scatter further into the woods.
Old phantoms walk beside me
In my snow dream.
snow enchanted woods discovered
animal footprints traveling
past a stream to the great white oak
Old and big the last of its kind.
A circle of white birch
raised graceful arms and bare heads
to the steel grey sky,
dancing among the buried leaves
under the new drifts of snow.
At the brink of the woods
deer stood still watching me and
I them as sleek crows circled,
calling to one another.
A fox nearby hunkered down.
Now I follow old trails...
above a red-tailed hawk hunts.
Snow birds scatter further into the woods.
Old phantoms walk beside me
In my snow dream.
Catherine Coundjeris, a former elementary school teacher, has also taught writing at Emerson College and ESL writing at Urban College in Boston. Her poetry is published in literary magazines, including The Dawntreader, Nine Cloud Journal, Academy of the Heart and Mind, Bombfire, Paper Dragons, Kaleidoscope, North of Oxford, and others. Catherine is very passionate about adult literacy.