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Dave Bonta May 6, 2023

Ground fog turns the field white at sunrise. A rabbit feeding at the edge of the driveway feels me watching and looks up, eyes unreadable as quicksand.

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    The western ridge is white with snow and more flakes spin down from thinning clouds, bellies turning orange against the blue. A crow kites overhead…
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    Slow snowfall in a silence punctuated only by birds. I’m tired enough that watching it feels almost like sleep.
  • December 11, 2021
    Foggy and damp on the last day of regular firearms deer season. The limbs of the old crabapple glow blueish green with lichen.
  • December 11, 2020
    Weak sunlight — enough to melt the hard frost, make the ground glisten, conjure up a bit of mist and a Carolina wren’s hearty burble.
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    Fast-moving clouds make the illumination of the hillside as sudden and surprising as a magician’s trick. Fallen leaves turn over one by one.

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Cover of Ice Mountain with a linocut of a big ridgetop tree.

What I do after I sit on the porch. One winter and spring's daily walks distilled into short poems with linocut illustrations by Beth Adams.

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