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Disasters, Delights and Other Detours - 37. Woodsmoke Season
Another short poem, and an one unusual for me.
Now is the woodsmoke season,
an hour of dancing snowflakes
and soot-sorrowed gutters;
days of sock ties
and handmade scarves that shout.
Here stretch weeks dressed in funeral clothes,
when forest and sky engage in grey conversation.
At dusk, I eavesdrop on the wind and river,
the pebbled shallows sharing jokes
with oak leaves reluctant to leave home,
and I wonder when
I’ll scent the warming earth again.
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Poetry posted in this category are works of fiction. Names, places, characters, events, and incidents are created by the authors' imaginations or are used fictitiously. Any resemblances to actual persons (living or dead), organizations, companies, events, or locales are entirely coincidental.
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