d’Verse Quadrille #172; Shift (2)

Shift is the word for Quadrille Monday at d’Verse , where Mish is tending the bar. The theme and style of your poem is open as long as your quadrille is exactly 44 words, not including the title. I have entered a second quadrille, less self serving than my first. Visit the pub to link in and to read more shifty poems.

Transformations of Matter by D. Avery


don’t think me shiftless

I’m bearing witness

to the melting snow


transformations of matter

microscopic multifold

crystalline structures collapse


heaped snow shrinks and shifts

drips water and mist

changing shape and form


winter’s end is this

snow a splitting chrysalis

spring unfolds damp wings