Hmmm, January has arrived and we’ve hunkered for the deep freeze months when old man winter holds court. But bejeweled sun on a fresh mantle of snow reminds us that winter too has its glories.
The splendours of January are of a more subtle hue. Easy to overlook as we huddle into our coats, grumble at the cold and slip-slide down the sidewalk. But stop a moment, raise your head from its winter stoop and behold the grace of the winter sun.
She uses a different palette now to sketch upon the canvas of snow. Tracing the bare branches of slumbering trees to produce elaborate patterns – long and graceful lines dissolving into elaborate swirls and tendrils that crisscross one another.
She glances off the lacework of snow-laden evergreen branches and traces zig-zaggy lines that cavort in their own dreamland of meaning. The branches quiver in a soft gust of wind and the lines redefine themselves into a new revelation.
Shadows of buildings from sharp, angular lines that at first seem angry but at closer observation resolve into perfections of form.
January does not sleep under the gaze of the winter sun. It dances to a melody whose pitch we have to attune our senses to before it releases itself to us.
Charcoal sketches of the winter sun on a fresh mantle of snow – a random act of metaphor to remind us that all seasons have their majesty. We must overcome our snow-blindness to witness and be moved by the magnificence of January.
~ Michael Robert Dyet is the author of “Until the Deep Water Stills – An Internet-enhanced Novel” – double winner in the Reader Views Literary Awards 2009. Visit Michael’s website at www.mdyetmetaphor.com or the novel online companion at www.mdyetmetaphor.com/blog.
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