 Pines in the Snow, by Maruyama Ōkyo (Japan) before 1795 Ghostwriting the Winter scanning the dark pines helps me forget just for once I am getting old if I had a voice I would echo crows to shake branches off the trees how the winter sun freezes on the path ahead shadows of a ghost the frosting of ice becomes a polished mirror flowering snowflakes my blood on the ice marked the place where I toppled youngsters slide laughing lonesome butterflies visit the poet Basho what do they tell him my remembered loves like wings torn from butterflies for a memento one caterpillar wove a cocoon and vanished a textbook on life I think like a child but more than seventy now the moon almost full tracking that full moon seems an old tragedy played without any masks watching the moon change until a cloud flotilla gives me needed rest as snow falls on snow my dreams pile up on past dreams sleepless more and more Royal Rhodes Royal Rhodes taught global religions for almost forty years at Kenyon College. His poems have appeared in multiple literary journals, including: The Ekphrastic Review, The Chained Muse, Autumn Sky Poetry, The Lyric, and elsewhere.
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