unheated attic --
window lace frosted inside,
     icicle bars outdoors
--Dorothy McLaughlin, from
Connecting Our Houses, 1997
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mid-January
receiving the November-
December issue
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trapped
inside
her Ford Escape
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the clap of thunder--
a flock of starlings
where the robins were
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in a swollen river
a freighter and a pickup
which doesn't belong?
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winter sky
on the end of the high branch
a clump of leaves
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