WORK BY JUDITH PREST

New Year
a new year     sun's lemon light     flows across blue shadowed snow     in crunching, bone-deep chill     cardinals and sparrows forage     for seed to fuel     their tiny frames     against the cold
sky washed clean     fresh fields of snow     waiting for tracks     inviting us to continue     the journey
in thin winter light     breath rising like prayer     through clear stillness     light as birdbones     we answer the call     striding into our lives     making tracks toward the millennium