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golden miasma

of summer, smoke wood in air

hangs around for now

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lake from a lost dream—

looking across the water,

all that could have been

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harsh blizzard rolls in,

watch snowfall against white clouds,

subtle silver sky

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waiting on the dawn

over the next horizon,

golden light, surely

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chilling damp pervades,

bare branches against grey snow,

ice drips down the pane

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ice sheet cracks and breaks,

floats out on the frigid lake,

it will break apart

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slip of crescent moon,

mild winter night, foggy haze,

oil slick city sky

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purple starless night,

even Jupiter eaten,

cruel city skyline

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horizon is there,

cloud wisps whittle away

last purples of dusk

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old tree snapped by wind,

gales that shouldn’t rend, but do—

strength: a fragile thing

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forest recovers

from the last spring flood, prepares

for the next and next

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cool ceramic, a

million tiny white circles—

creature flees through woods

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rain mists the night,

light turns a bleary gold haze—

dark, empty back porch

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and another bleak,

desaturated grey day,

and another and

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yellowing green-white

of snow on grass, one crows hops,

takes off, then flies east

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fractal wind howls,

scourging air of white ribbons;

blizzard blankets all

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storm rolls in and wrecks,

no care for calm or quiet;

cruel capriciousness