BY FLORENCE NIVEN
Copyright is held by the author.
the winter birds
accompanying us
through
this wilderness
broke
the silence
offering morsels
of
birdsong
distinguishing features
habitats
upon which to feed —
our conversation
skirting the edge of
misunderstanding
•
don’t fix me
she’d said
when it was obvious
to me
I was the one
in need of
fixing
but if I picked
at that thread
I risked
unravelling
until I was no more
***
Florence Niven lives in Kingston, Ontario, with her husband Don. Her recently published Step Into This Day — Thoughts on Connection is a compilation of 70 of her poems that explore gratitude, love and loss.
