Quiet exchange

Winter field

The frost did not arrive to erase the field.
It came to slow it down.

What remains standing here is not stubbornness,
but agreement —
between what was,
and what is not ready to leave yet.

Each frozen reed carries the memory of movement.
Each stillness is temporary,
but necessary.

This image was taken on a winter morning
when the landscape chose to pause,
not to disappear.