Into January
By Amarylis Douglas
It comes to almost a monochrome
the island, off-season.
We walk back home from the Chop
into the snow’s beginnings.
Dry leaves spin mischief
inside the log-bordered yard.
The chickadees, discreet at the feeder
until audacious bluejay comes.
Salty woodstove smoke.
The pines bowing down into January.
Amarylis Douglas lives in Vineyard Haven. Her book, “The Fellowship of the Rain,” was published in 2020. Her writing also appears in “Pathways Arts” and in “Our Place: An Anthology of Berkshire Hills Poets.”
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