Two things to do on a winter’s day

Two things to do on a winter’s day

1.
Watch the weaving
of the crow birds
patterning the sky

see how a stray beam
of winter sun

entwines the hollow tree
gilding a cathedral.

2.
Listen.
The thrush embroiders winter silence
untangling the brambles

where wren and robin bob
drawing out the drops of mist
snagged on barbs

smoothing rugosities of bark
and unkind words.