More Than a Graze
/serrated stride -
winter cutting
all the wrong places
blood pooling
cooling
hands tied
knees cracked
--
yet whispers of dawn
keeping course
feathers
beneath trees
tracks
going somewhere
love on the run
--
how the season
plays out in currents
moving water
ice / veins / snow / mud /earth
and finally gone
--
fertile soil
left to give
love