Poem: Long Tree Shadows

[Photo: Detail from wall painting at Slocan and Hastings...Vancouver].
On long train rides I've been on in my time...one of the things I've found it conducive to...is writing poems. This one was written as we shuttled slowly across
the continent of Ontario...with winter still gripping the land].
"Long tree shadows
on gleaming white
of unmelted morning lakes...
Snow...so clean...
far away from the big city...
Tree outlines
so slender and dark...
reaching for the far shore...
across the foot prints
of vanished coyotes...
circling back
to food and hiding places
on the winter land...
The multiple signatures
of two trinities of toes
that end suddenly
on the lake face...
having turned into
an invisible trail of wings...
marking the April air...
only a few gleaming moments
before...................."
..................Quester.