Today's surrender comes
Waiting
Photo By: Pixabay/bairli1
A snowman, who wears a vest
with a single garish button,
peeks out from tall trees. Smoke
from a fireplace in the adjacent
neighborhood hangs in the air.
Street lights blur sunrise in blue
fog. In bare branches, a flurry
of dry snowflakes swirls, falls
like grace from Above. Winter
solstices. A mourning dove calls me
back to the prayer I was distracted
from saying. Silent morning builds
her altar on my heart. Then I wait
through three more days of Advent.
About the Author
A former English teacher, Helen Losse is the author of ten collections of poetry, including A Flower More Enduring (Main Street Rag, 2021). Her poems have been anthologized in Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont, The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume VII: North Carolina, and Kakalak 2014, nominated for a Pushcart Prize and for a Best of the Net award. She is Poetry Editor Emeritus for The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature and a former Associate Poetry Editor for Kentucky Review. She is married and has two grown sons. A Christian her entire life, Helen entered the Catholic Church on Holy Saturday in 2015 to grow closer to Jesus.
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