A Rose in Winter -2

—for my mother, Mary Mraz Culleny,
b. December 8, 1917
.

a cathedral steeple’s being launched,
snow swirls around its nave

so much stone to be sent aloft
on the tiny spark of a solitary rose

so much weight to be thrust into something other
by the flame of a delicate rose

.

Jim Culleny
12/08/12
Photograph by Abbas Raza