the aching snowflakes
cling like cold butterflies
to the black fingers
of dark barren trees
reaching upward
to the storm-driven sky
with no recourse
but to bear
the onslaught of
the storm
and the
wind’s winter teeth…
a tempest.
Lynette G. Esposito, MA Rutgers, has been published in Poetry Quarterly, North of Oxford, Twin Decades, Remembered Arts, Reader’s Digest, US1, and others. She was married to Attilio Esposito and lives with eight rescued muses in Southern New Jersey.