Today’s #CapsuleCollective highlight: #LesleySiegerWalls holds a PhD in English from the University of Illinois. A Kansas native, she now lives in #StLouis, #MO, where she teaches college #writing classes and conducts walking tours for the Missouri Historical Society. Her #poetic focus is typically rooted in the landscapes of the Great Plains and #Midwest.

Her #poem “In Winter, the Trees” is published in #CapsuleStories Winter 2022 Edition: Hibernation, available here: http://capsulestories.com/winter-2022-edition

—“In Winter, the Trees” by Lesley Sieger-Walls, published in Capsule Stories Winter 2022 Edition: Hibernation. Featuring poetry and prose, Capsule Stories Winter 2022 Edition explores the theme Hibernation. These stories and #poems ruminate on hunkering down for the #winter and resting. Buy now in paperback or ebook: capsulestories.com/winter-2022-edition

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Quivering, feathered limbs
cast up a murmuration.

Tree branches, now bare,
spider across the gray sky,
weaving and webbing upward.

Trunks may serve as charnels
for walnut shells,
the shade of a bird,
caps of acorns,
and desiccated leaves.

But inside, trees remain rivers,
flowing witnesses to winter.

They are most alive now:
still and waiting,
a resting awareness,
with tangled limbs
rooted in the sky.

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