*
When he entered the kitchen his wife,
cooking a classical Minestrone soup,
laughed as she told him that he looked
like a red cheeked, cheeky garden gnome.
*
He kissed her fondly with half frozen lips
told her he had worked in the garden
distributing the fallen leaves from
halfnaked trees over the soil
between the rimy plants.
*
The day before he had decorated
-according to her wishes-
some of the trees and bushes
with strings of bird feeds.
*
Slowly the sun brushed through
the clouds and melted the frost
from the roof tiles as they heard
the soft dripping in the rain gutter.
*
They smiled as warmly
at each other
as it was warm inside
their home
and their hearts.
*
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