THE INGRESS OF YEARN
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Dianna L. Zimmerman
Dianna L. Zimmerman is a creative writing graduate student at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. She works as an on-line mentor/editor for other writers through the University of New Mexico community outreach program, The Writers' Inn, and is the happy mother of a twin girl and boy! By Dianna L. Zimmerman
Published on 11/16/2001
Comes winter.
The ground's hardness betrays
the crux of a season's sadness
held tightly in our oversized boots.
We are crunching in an era of arctic
tears unshed, lies untold -
the hoarfrost of a bitter sort
without the possibility of return.
Approaches stillness.
Bleak lapses of time sit in memory
along with terrestrial cases of
would have, should have-
a silent stalker on the mind and
the known intent of winter's ill wind.
We take in cold air, unforced
into desperate lungs - the pain of it like a
nice knife cutting into a snow landscape
topped with a delicate, thin
frosted layer of grief.
Copyright © Dianna L. Zimmerman, 2001. All Rights Reserved.
Comes winter.
The ground's hardness betrays
the crux of a season's sadness
held tightly in our oversized boots.
The ground's hardness betrays
the crux of a season's sadness
held tightly in our oversized boots.
Comes winter.
The ground's hardness betrays
the crux of a season's sadness
held tightly in our oversized boots.
We are crunching in an era of arctic
tears unshed, lies untold -
the hoarfrost of a bitter sort
without the possibility of return.
Approaches stillness.
Bleak lapses of time sit in memory
along with terrestrial cases of
would have, should have-
a silent stalker on the mind and
the known intent of winter's ill wind.
We take in cold air, unforced
into desperate lungs - the pain of it like a
nice knife cutting into a snow landscape
topped with a delicate, thin
frosted layer of grief.
Copyright © Dianna L. Zimmerman, 2001. All Rights Reserved.