March 8 - International Women's Day

....a kindness, today, for the women in your life - and all of those who remind you that love still matters, after all....perhaps with just a smile. 

Twig snap silent

In the gun metal mist morning of exquisite ice silence, 'twixt lurking night owl shriek,
 and watery sunbeam leak,
I imagine that you breathe sharply, taunting moaning haunt howls with the fire and cloud burst of suspense -
Slicing space between us into slivers of shiver;
Banishing the chasms upon chasms within us, glimmer deep, which mock
The pounding constance, that, even now, urge us toward the rush of melted
Spring.