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Monday, December 28, 2020

Signs

How the wind in the trees

shapes branches and twigs

 

where snow rests

and blankets the frozen lake, 


nestles around trees and brush,

settles in notches and crevices;


tracks sliced in the snow 

by skiers, hikers and rabbits;


a lone city sign warns of 

danger beneath the lake's soft blanket  


a mitten atop the lone sign

warns of cold little fingers.


“Signs may be but the sympathies of nature with man.”

~ Charlotte Bronté,  Jane Eyre


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