tracks in the snow

From my poetpotter blog

Today it’s snowing, just the light snowflakes borne by the wind. Tracks in my backyard make me think that some rabbits in the neighbourhood had quite a time in the crisp clean snow. We could ask, what if they had a party out there, but I think this was a smaller gathering or one rabbit frolicking around having fun, making his own tracks.

Then I think of fields covered with snow and of corn stalk stubble showing through.

When I was small, we always seemed to have a lake in one front field, a place that was lower than other areas, at least until Dad hired people to lay tiles to drain the water from the surface and draw it away. What I remember is skating on the small body of frozen (not deep) water with corn stalks poking through at intervals.

Dad brought a few straw bales out from the barn that we could sit on to put on our skates. We played hockey or just skated around the stubble.

My memory in a poem:

Frozen weeds were goalposts

where corn grew tall   two seasons before

our open air arena     rippled and bumpy …

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Poetry and photo © Carolyn Wilker