I hold the alley's winter breath
Black surface drinking cobalt death
Taxus baccata shadows keep
Where solitary watchers sleep
Cobblestones glow in my dark eye
No root reaches down to pry
I reflect what cannot stay
Light bends slow in winter's gray
Footsteps pause on frozen stone
Breath clouds rise where he has shown
Quercus robur branches bare
Frame the face I catch in air
Cobblestones glow in my dark eye
No root reaches down to pry
I reflect what cannot stay
Light bends slow in winter's gray
Helleborus niger blooms unseen
Black petals in the subterrene
He watches what the water keeps
While winter wind through alley sweeps
Cobblestones glow in my dark eye
No root reaches down to pry
I reflect what cannot stay
Light bends slow in winter's gray
Pavement cracks drink melted ice
No reflection pays the price
Betula pendula stands sentinel
Guarding secrets in the well
Time suspends in mercury hush
No rush of sap no green flush
Anomaly reads the stalker's mind
Winter releases what it pinned
Dawn fractures on the alley floor
Stalker walks to watch no more
Pinus sylvestris sheds its cone
I keep the light I call my own
Cobblestones glow in my dark eye
No root reaches down to pry
I reflect what cannot stay
Light bends slow in winter's gray
Black mirror sleeps till winter night
Holding cobalt holding light
