This morning
the room is bright with snowlight
and everything seems illuminated differently.
I have to trust the robin’s snatches of song
like drips from a melting icicle, the starling’s rush
of wingbeats overhead. Narcissi’s tender
green shoots rise from the snow
All I have to hope on
is that your wintersilence
may break open
to let through
small shoots of love.
Rebecca Gethin has written five poetry publications and two novels. She was a Hawthornden Fellow and a Poetry School tutor. Her poems are widely published in various magazines and anthologies. She won the first Coast to Coast pamphlet competition with Messages. Snowlines was published by Maytree Press in 2024.