Winter light is best

Winter light is best

        it sets itself

        against dark backgrounds.

        The rainbow knows its own degrees

        but in this twilight

        even its colours are cold.

        Its promise ends

        in my garden.

        Lemons hang in small globes of gold

        against the fence.

        A warm promise.

        I have it all

        in a glass-half-full

        and toast this moment

        because it is all

                                there really is.

These poems are from my new collection IN THE APRICOT DARKNESS (view the cover and contents below in my recent posts). They are now being published individually, daily under 'recent posts' on my blog and will be available shortly as an eBook that can be read online or downloaded for free.