blue grey shadows cast by the winter bright moon slide over a plane of unmarred snow

crystalline brilliance

softening the sharper corners

everything made finer by the lace of water and cold air

the north wind

an artic kiss

the trees bend in deference to

crystalline brilliance

blanketing each limb

everything made quiet by the fabric of winter’s deep mantle

silent season

sleeping landscape

i take in the night

crystalline brilliance

enhancing all i see

everything made breathtaking

by that brilliance

moonlit night

soothing stillness

Shannara Gillman lives in Bar Harbor, Maine. Her website is: http://gillmangirl.wordpress.com/