Monday, March 11, 2024

Wind Whipped

March is rattling the trees
shaking off their broken bones
spearing skeleton-white limbs
an inch or more into 
the frost-heaved mush of
thawing earth
making me thankful
to not be shuddering tree
nor deep-soaked earth
gasping its last frosty
breath into the March wind.

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