Written on a winter walk-

shimmering branches
suspended from winter sky
squirrel tracks in rhyme

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melting april snow
tumbling from church gable
glisten on snowdrift

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fiery red dogwoods
floating in wind packed snow
hold a nibbled branch

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spring promise
by the frozen field
— bare lilacs

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cool white horizon
quivering in morning sun
capped by azure sky

                   -cj holm