Contributor's Poem

Frances, one of the friends of Ashwood Homestead, sent this poem to be shared:

Empress Dowager

Cold green clean
Blue on gold porcelain
Cream meshed
Out like flaked fish
Served for Lent
Platter adorned with bells
In silver caster salt canister
Shaken star light

Sifting, drifting
In the deep veins
No uplift but drowned
Darkness filtered rays
Made luminous
Like pearls hidden
Bidden but coyly
Driven into the sand.

Thank you, Frances for this beautiful image for a winter evening.