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The winter sun has eased away the frost
Softening the ice edge where it turns
Transparent, seeping downwards as it's lost;
The winter sun.
By the sea wall a teenage couple stand.
Their silhouettes hung like a dying ghost
Of the day's heat, shimmers as his hand
Stretches out to touch her unseen face.
They move away towards the pier and
Fade, as falling twilight creeps to encase
The winter sun,
The winter sun flows on across the Downs
Lighting up the beacons as it cuts
From Firle to Lewes, Alfreston to Glynde.
The winter sun
Low in the east is bursting with new fire
To burn and quicken, purge and purify
Releasing dormant earth to rise again.
Each tiny root, each single sleeping grain
Touched in the thawing darkness out of sight
Will at his touch, explode into the light.
The winter sun.
Brian Hick February 2015
©copyright Sally Hick 5.2.26
