Images gather
in my sleep—the balls of yarn
swelling by themselves
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The tea kettle screams
and no one will get up
to end its lament.
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A white Sunday—
the street covered and parked cars
blindfolded by snow
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For an instant
these flurries seemed white gnats
born falling to earth.
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Trains rumble, traffic
the same—just a car alarm
to announce the day.
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Today, wintery
mix—a big bowl of icing
slopping over its rim.
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I see him chest-deep
in surf—he faces each wave then
turns to me, laughing.
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In a book, a list
scrawled in anger and haste, still
thinking what task waits.
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On the window sill
the violet blooms—a bruise
to snow outside.
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Through an icicle
all the neighboring houses
ripple out from here.
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