Mist rose from every morsel as if all of earth exhaled
Stumps once-stiff sank into damp wormdirt
Ice-green salt scattered sidewalks like shattered glass
December thaw
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December thaw
Mist rose from every morsel as if all of earth exhaled
Stumps once-stiff sank into damp wormdirt
Ice-green salt scattered sidewalks like shattered glass
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