With Grays and Blues Awake before the grayscale Is abolished by morning sun She leans naked in the doorway Watching snow slip In the silence before birdsong walking crooked fence lines The steam of horse nostrils fare to kiss her As the dogs dance behind snow still now on the hillside Fireside She reads alone Laughing spilled wine words she drinks Content to leave The kitchen light on curled again in Linen sheets and quilt cool skin She swims In dreams Of gray and blue