Thursday, June 28, 2012

Shadows


Shadows



Do you know what the trees

are doing in the winter

with their branches reaching

up and out

and all about

making crisscross shadows

little twiggy spriggy shadows

long lanky liney shadows

all around?



They’re sunbathing.





By Anna Grossnickle Hines



Used with permission.  From Pieces:  A year in poems and quilts, Greenwillow Books (an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers), © 2001 by Anna Grossnickle Hines.




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