It's Still Life

A Poem Inspired By Joseph Farquharson’s Painting

A Slip Against the Wind

The sky is white
as pork fat, the heather
burnt by cold.
A mother and three bairn
inch steps against the wind.
March on, their mother says,
March until it’s spring.
A mother and three bairn
are a slip against the wind.

for dVerse Poets Ekphrastic March prompt. Featured painting is by Joseph Farquharson “The Cauld Blaws the Wind Frae East to West” (1888) ©Misky 2022 Shared with #amwriting on Twitter