Angelic sweet Anne
babe so soft- -fragile
sleeping at my breast
and you, her father
next to me
- -the moment
pre-dawn

Outside
snowflakes feather slowly
- -quilted tufts
compose purple-blue sonnets
mounding on trees
of pine and fir
edging the cabin in
nature’s crystal perfection
- -white
collects frosty portholes
in this storm

But the cold wont reach us
- -here- -
wrapped in your arms
                                   love- -
your strength contents us both
- -together
we absorb the warm

“Soft Moment” was first published in 1986,
in Z-Miscellaneous, a small Lit. Mag. of the time.