"To Winter" by Mady Erickson

Photo by Felipe Seiberlich on Unsplash

This one

                  winter leaf,

                                        alone in the dark,

                                                                           there it lay

                                                                                    all cold and gray.

                        The sun

Shoots down

                        A ray of light.

   I’m squinting

            at the sight

      of the shimmer

of the light

    of the hazy glimmer

          of the leaf

     Glistening

in this new light.

   Before it disappears,

               forever.

                     The ice,

Frozen over

                      the road,

                 the trees,

          the grass,

the leaf.

Mady Erickson is 13 years old; she lives in Orono, Maine and attends Orono Middle School in RSU 26. Some fun facts about Mady are that she has been dancing for ten years; she is on her school soccer team as well as cheering for her school. Mady has two dogs, Odie and Milo, who must be a big part of her Christmas celebrations each year.