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Winter Landscape
Under a comforter
two hold hands.
Their thoughts touch
drift and settle.
Stars shiver, oppressed
by winter's stark clutch.
In the dark woods nearby
bears slumber deep.
Cavernous hearts
beat a slow time, lone
careful notes that crawl across a tundra.
Draped in a dazzle of ice crystals
the shaggy forms of bears
inert and vulnerable, long
held fast by wandering
dreams of immeasurable hunger.
They twitch and huff
while nothing happens
but a world awakes and disappears.
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Winter Landscape
(revised)
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