winter bedtime
I need
a nightcap

waking
from nightmares - is that
howl the wind?

snowpool
the silver fish
circles

housebound
on the couch
I eat sour grapes

by the fireside
warm reflections
in your voice

© Judith E P Johnson

Peter Macrow,
Tasmanian Times Poetry Editor.
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Judith E P Johnson