Herewith, the latest selection from dusted-off published poetry and short fiction, circa 1970s vintage and beyond....
Moonlit Landscape
A gibbous moon glints
off the landscape
as I leave a trail of
giant steps on the plump
luxury of a storm
following the tracks of mice
over the flats
then zig-zagging down the slope
where tree shadows
ghost the snow,
moon silvering the
silhouetted branches.
A hawthorne grasps my scarf
and my snowshoe is caught
by a stump playing
nighttime tricks.
Did that shadow move?
And did I hear nocturnal
hunting sounds?
My passage through these woods
is more dreamlike than real
and the fleeting shadows
may be no more than my
thoughts flitting the
forest of primal memory.
c. 1978 Rita Rosenfeld
published in Mamashee, Fall Issue - 1978
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