Scenes from My Window
bitter
frost
freezes
my window,
an
unwanted guest.
black
cat
closes
its eyes,
swallowed
by midnight.
ravens gather
on a black bough,
bold and menacing.
in
the morning,
a
melting icicle
weeps
over a dappled fawn.
spring
arrives and
salamanders sing,
rippling the pond
silvery and raw,
waking a water lily.
a
spotted spider,
it’s
house-broken
by
a gust of wind,
is
homeless and bereft.
Lisa Lahey
Lisa Lahey is a Toronto
writer and Associate Acquisitions Editor for After Dinner Conversations
Magazine. She has been published in 34th Parallel Magazine, Spaceports and
Spidersilk Magazine, Why Vandalism?, Suddenly, Without Warning, and will be
published in the upcoming issues of Literally Stories, Five on the Fifth, and
Epater Magazine.
She is
encouraged by her brother, Paul Lahey.