Thursday, December 22, 2011

winter...

the snow
has come early
this year,
and with it
the familiar longing
for solitude.
like the she-bear
who enters
her cave in fatness
to ride out
the lean time,
i, too, am ready
to hunker down.
winter...
makes me hungry
for god.

-stacy wills (12/22/2011)