Rail journey
Thickset windows fix
Fleeting landscape green-chill
Outside carriage warmth
A winter sun’s
Tentative intense
Strikes brushwood bark-bole
Bounces lemon curd
Off the trees’
December slumber skin
Insinuating dazzle
Lichen imbued light

Martin Potter (https://martinpotterpoet.home.blog) is a poet and academic, and his poems have appeared in Acumen, The French Literary Review, Eborakon, Scintilla, Ink Sweat & Tears, The Poetry Village, and other journals. His pamphlet In the Particular was published by Eyewear in December, 2017.