Winter Light Poem by Thomas James Martin

for Joyce

My hands remember your brightness
Your face graces the morning
Lights up the winter darkness

You light up the winter darkness
Common serpents curse winter suns
my hands remember your brightness.

My hands remember your brightness,
the windy blood in song, on a clay harp sung,
You Light up the winter darkness.

You light up the winter darkness,
Your warmth lights the frosty air
My hands remember your brightness.

My hands remember your brightness
Your lovely eyes holding my smile
Only you light up the winter darkness.

And you, my love lighting the the dusk
Looking and laughing and full of mirth,
My hands remember your brightness,
You light up the winter darkness.