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Autumn Leaves

volume 4 number 6

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Early Winter Haiku

by Sondra Ball

wind chimes shimmering
ringing in the cold night air
reflecting moonlight
evenings getting cold
the old man stacking oak logs
anticipating
frozen streams, white snow
on statues, long icicles,
your small white casket
icicles on oaks
deep snow around the woodpile
rose vase in window
white mountain waters
captured on the rocky cliffs
frozen waterfall
on a dusty chair
in the attic Grandpa reads
his Grandma's journal
moving across snow
on the longest winter night
a single bird song
morning sun: faint smell
of last night's ale and whiskey
a cup of coffee
the rising full moon
sweeps shadows of bare maples
lightly on the lawn
in the still bedroom,
I lay with my lover, listening
to the winter winds

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