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At Winter’s Solstice

By Inez George Gridley

Dream, dream slow dreams
as green as ferns uncurling
as delicate as cones upon a hemlock bough
cool as brook water pouring over moss in April
Pale and beautiful as lady slipper
hiding from covetous eyes in some deep wood.
Dream slow dreams about the sun returning
and darkness melting like a drift of snow.

From “Journey from Red Hill: Selected Poems”