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Autumn Leaves

volume 6 number 7

Skating
by Sondra Ball

My feet go flying on glittering steel
down the brook winding among the hills,

white oak standing in a snow filled dream
beside the glimmering ice clad stream

that runs like a path of smooth dark glass
through the snow capped trees and covered grass.

I skim and I fly past drifts so deep,
where silence reigns and cold and sleep:

no sound but a whisper, a spinning twing
as the shrill of steel on the blue ice rings,

and the sound of cold wind close behind
and the sound of joy in my flying mind.

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