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Valerie Quercia is a Massachusetts-based poet and storyteller. She is the author of In Gratitude, a chapbook published by Finishing Line Press in 2013 (written under the name Valerie Anne Prescott). Val loves literature, history, baseball, old movies, generous pots of tea, and, most of all, animals. She currently lives in Acton, MA, with four rescued pets, in a house built in 1844. Val calls their home “The Pink House”– for obvious reasons. But local historians say the color of the house is, was, and ever will be … “Chippendale Rose.”

Dream for a Winter’s Morning

Valerie Quercia

I wish we could stand
You and I
out
Today
alone together
just once more.
A world with so many edges
now softened
by the falling
snow
Flakes enormous
like spent dandelions
ready to seed
And catch them
on our tongues
laughing again
once more
Or that I could see
the exquisite flakes
fall
upon
your star-crossed lashes
and kiss your eyelids
miraculously
warm
again

— Valerie Quercia

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