Barbara Reynolds
The Dead of Winter
Deceived
by the calm
of balmy days
coatless bodies
and hatless heads
it is easy to forget
the dead of winter—
in urns, in graves,
and entombed
below boats
rowed toward shore
fleeing war.
Barbara Reynolds’s work has appeared in The Avocet. She is a retired high school math teacher and currently an adjunct instructor in the Graduate School of Education at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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