In view of venerable shrub pines
Among each frozen fields’ unbroken creases
Beside the bare birch-
In the absence of birds,
Deep calls to deep
Then deep to deeper
Amidst a thunder of silence-
The sacred interrupted
by the crunch of my boots
scarring the untouched snow.
-Rachel Fogarty
Rachel Fogarty is a freelance musician, composer and sometimes poet in Astoria, NY.