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Boxing Day, 2017

I admire,
in fact,
treasure
the one
snowflake
able
to find
my tongue.

One Fall Day

After watching
a three-hour
documentary
on George Harrison
I walk
with the butterflies,
one yellow,
the other
not quite white,
mellow shades
each has worn
on their wings
since I was a boy
when once,
and only once,
I touched them
and my fingers
came away covered
with the powder
which seemed
to give them flight,
what, not knowing,
I then had stolen
forever.

Undone

As winter
abducts us
rain & snow
do not let up,
each boot
a hostage:
one lace
tightly bound,
the other
attempting
to escape
in the slush.

Banner graphic source: A photograph by Darby Thompson of a mixed media sculpture by Jeanne Williamson titled "Fence Holes Bandage 2.0", installed for the Energy Necklace exhibition at the Jackson Homestead in Newton, Massachusetts, in 2014. Permission for use granted by the photographer.

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