# A Winter Morning **by Joanie Roberts** blue skies and winter sunshine moves me forward as I sit here framed in light bathed in morning’s warmth as full glass windows hold out the cold while also holding all of Lake Ann’s Bear Cove a blanket of diamond sparkles lights up the waters moving in quick time across the lake — seemingly, forever moving towards me in such a delightful dance pulling me straight up to blue skies, my spirit rises and I standing bare stark and naked pale against a winter sunshine if for only a moment free . . .