WHITE WINTER LANE

There's a hush in the lane

by my cottage,

a silence all over the town;

for all of the sound has been muted

by the blizzard of snow coming down.

Suddenly, the silence is broken

by the children who live in the lane~

laughing, at play, in a white wonderland

while I smile through

my frosty glass pane.

© Christina 10--00

Background sequence by Don Carroll