White Silence - Anne Clark

Outside taking tiny steps

Putting pressure on the ice

Watch the whiteness spread

Then disappear when I move on

Careful

Cautious steps in heavy boots

Walking on ahead

You pause to catch a moment

See winter wrap the world

In a veil of white silence

This place —

Where the earth gives the illusion

It has stopped turning

Inside

Warmth fires the colours

Cracked

Wood

Turning burning orange

Sparks off light

Shining in our eyes