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Fog, Near the Summit of Afton Mountain, Just After the Winter Solstice

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Fog, Near the Summit of Afton Mountain, Just After the Winter Solstice

 

We disappear into the unseen ahead of us:
Already built, a bridge will reveal itself

when we arrive where a bridge is needed.
We’re not the first to make this trip.

November Mountain Scene

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November Mountain Scene

 

Deer have ventured out through thinning trees
into thickening traffic.  Men in trucks gentle them

to the breakdown lane with shovels. The last leaf’s
twisting stem is the voice of the deer in November.

After a Mid-March Snowstorm

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After a Mid-March Snowstorm

 

Winter’s last silent sigh
is borne quietly by mountain pines

Clouds drift like tumblers until
they unlock the day’s first color