It's Still Life

A Still Life of a Winter’s Night

The fireplace is lit, its flame
dancing with the surface
of the window. A candle
stiff and still on the table,

with the last heel from a loaf,
dried onions and cheese
with a sip of sweet wine.

No need to whisper that
the cupboard is bare, or
that the empty knocking is
not the beat of ones heart.

©Misky 2022 Shared with #amwriting #apoemaday on Twitter. for Twiglets #264 “Empty Fridge”. Image: Still Life with Drawing Board, Pipe, Onions and Sealing-Wax, by Vincent van Gogh, Date: 1889; Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. Public Domain.