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Jill Ruscoll
LIGHTNESS IN WINTER
now, after all these years
when she walks the hallway
to her warm kitchen
her body feels lighter,
hardly stirs the air
as if she is more spirit than life
her worries
have softened
cold with its bitterness
with its frost on the windows
is not the finish line
she’s thankful
for these days and rests
in their familiar
everything a passage
everything a walk in two worlds
About the writer:
Over the past four years, Jill Ruscoll has participated in multiple writing classes with Nancy McMillan and with poet Holly Wren Spaulding. She has also attended online writing courses with Joy Harjo and Billy Collins. Jill has a bachelor’s in art education and graduated magna cum laude from SUNY Buffalo State College. She is a creative director in the healthcare field. In her free time, Jill enjoys hiking, biking, climbing, and being outside while spending time with family and friends. Her work is published or forthcoming in The Broken Plate, El Portal, Evening Street Review, MacGuffin, The Round, and Thin Air Magazine.
Image: Winter Night by Alphonse Mucha (1860-19390). Oil on cardboard. 23.6 × 28.7 inches. 1920. Public domain.
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