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In my cell

In the bright Spring sky the giddy wind
makes the green tree tops dance and wave.
Alone inside, I read Apollinaire's Selected Poems.
In the bright Spring sky the giddy wind
makes the green tree tops dance and wave.

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Woods after a Winter Storm

After a freezing rain overnight
in their silvered coats of heavy ice
the smaller branches all dip down
not unlike the elderly supplicants in church,
lost in prayer, who lower their heads.

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Focus

Because the cameras are focused on the white slope
with its competing skiers and ample man-made snow,
and because the filmed experience is so deftly curated,
the audience watching at home sees images that elide
the brown and gray of the sere surrounding landscape.

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Winter Storm

Stepping into this day is an ordeal
featuring wind-whipped bitter cold
knifing in through layered clothing.
and black ice beneath relentless snow
making any movement added misery.

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Winter full moon

In a cloudless dawn sky
low and seemingly close
large and shining brightly
settling a calming influence
on a solitary, unquiet mind.