the walk

i sent you a photograph today

it is of a tree dressed in white

i was out for a walk with my dog

we walk on a path along a river nearby

some years during spring break up ice floes jam 

causing the river to flood the path and we must wait

sometimes for days before we can walk there again

but today it is winter

the geese headed south weeks ago

deer tracks dot the snow covering

the ice on the river

the sky is grey and silent