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Month: April 2013

April 2, 2013 by Dave Bonta

In contrast to the clouds, the snowbank beside the driveway is shrunken and gray, like something left too long at the back of the fridge.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags clouds, snow
April 1, 2013 by Dave Bonta

Rain just past, the gray sky brightens above the eastern and western horizons. A titmouse descends singing into the lilac.

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On This Day

  • April 2, 2025
    Gray sky with a smudge of sun, as bright as the half-out forsythia against the woods. A woodpecker and his echo. The rumble of freight.
  • April 2, 2024
    Rain. Every ditch runs with whitewater. Behind the bright forsythia, a gray wall of fog swallows the trees. Nevertheless, a wren.
  • April 2, 2022
    Clouds that looked dark before sunrise are mottled with blue-gray and yellow. Woodpecker blast beats. Wrenish riffs.
  • April 2, 2021
    Bitter wind. Up in the woods, sun glints off an old jar the frost heaved up. When I go to fetch it, ice colonnades crumble…
  • April 2, 2020
    Birds keep landing on the empty feeder, like kids in a home with an unpaid cable bill staring at the TV. The wind pages through…

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