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A TRAVELER IN WINTER

© Krista Detor, The Silver Wood: Wintersongs

Inspired by T.S. Eliot & Herbert Trench

She looked like a drifter who had washed up on the shore

A dress of seaweed hanging on her, dripping water on my floor

Another traveler in winter, I suppose

Get some warm clothes

And night she brought in with her, when the moon rose

Her hair was matted up with bits of shell and muddy sand

And I built the fire and set a cup of brandy in her hand

Why it was me that found her, I never knew

But night settled around her while the wind blew

I open up my house, don’t mind a stranger on my land

The floor is dirt, the walls are wood, and sometimes I am stone

I am hardened by the water

And the wild wind

And night, it laid upon her, on her white skin

I say, «Steal away the things you hear and most of what you see

Don’t let your secrets long betray you to anyone and not to me

I heard the mermaids whisper once

And I told what I knew

But no one would consider that the song was true.»

Then night awoke within her, in the dark blue

And across her face, the stars came out and lit the cloudless climes

In all the world and every place I saw her grace a thousand times

When night is on the hillside and the voices roll in from sea

By starlight and by dreamlight she comes to me…

I find them in the Spring and I am always glad to see

All the dresses spun in seaweed lying on the shore for me

I heard the mermaids singing

Like the poet said they do

And I go on believing that they call you …

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