Three Short Winter Poems

I love cold weather. The images are sharp.

photo by B. Lynch
Canoe Creek, Winneshiek County, IA

at
-12ºF
the
porch
groans –
first
heat
rises
from the
woodstove

-- Steve Peterson

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great horned owl
replies
to the
evening sky
and the
indigo snow

-- Steve Peterson


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in a narrow strip of water between the ice
a tundra swan

-- Steve Peterson