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Chill winter panes
in whispers to chrysalis trees
echo this heart, these thoughts.

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Conspiracy of crows
consorting with jays in shadows
surely against me.

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Playful rabbits
awash in surf and rolling waves
of summer wheat.

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Splashed in tender sepia
she remains
a blaze of harsh edges.

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A fragile light
moaning through slips
of a door's judgment.

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"A story begins"
she said, with such words
shy of endings.

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Tickle tales of willow
inscribed into stream
after stream after ...

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Bursting days -
unleashed sparrows
tease the tethered thickets.

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An imposing stain
of roguish crows
in skeletal sycamores.

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