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Friday, January 21, 2022

Stark and Cold


A bony, icy finger

slid into the crevice

between

fleece hood, wooly scarf,

thick turtled sweater to

thinly ice my neck.


Pulling my hood tight

against the wind

adjusting my backpack

I let the wind push me

forward as

took my groceries home.




“That’s what winter is: an exercise in remembering how

 to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again.”

~ Ali Smith,  Winter

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