Tableau of white and black by Beth Haist (Honouring Sydney Poitier)

All the snow hits every line
edged black

soulmates
like the doves I see sitting in the snow and sunlight
sparkling
both perfectly halved heart shaped wings

Separate but obviously two halves of the same

It is bright today
Landscape of white and black

Top tails
And
It seems noted on every surface or branch

Back lit-

A wedding cake
Tiered
To the heavens

Carefully
layered
Quiet
White

Letting in the slight song of
These doves who congregate in 3s,

To to say:
To sir with love

Seems right
And true
A trajectory

of
A dignitary

Held today
For a moment-

In angel wings
Resolute

In their

Feathered puffery
Their stance

Rest
In
Power

Sir

Rest
In

Love