blizzard

snow screams swept sideways
curled drifts cocoon detail
chrome white impasto clogs wonder
sound sight touch leaden deaden
muffled homogeneous numb
retreat stay nestle succumb
we prayed all summer and fall for this

The voice of the poet

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About riverwriter

Poet, playwright, duplicate bridge player, website designer, cottager, husband, father, grandfather, former athlete, carpenter, computer helper for my friends, theatre designer, backstage polymath, retired teacher of highschool English, drama, art, a baritone singer in a barbershop quartet, who knows what else? wordcurrents is on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wordcurrents/ Doug also has a Facebook page, "Incognitio", related to his novels.
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