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Architecture of Wintering

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Leaves hardened in outlined impressions

            marking a bench and a pathway, this home is not our possession.

     Our marks recorded

                      by our connection, am I only rewarded?

       Scattered footprints,

                          our negligent imprints.

 Frosty covers illuminated

         the freshness, fierceness, freedom contaminated.

The sun’s kisses seeping through,

                                        crystalizing purplish-blue hue.

Unveiled weaves

   interlocking branches, root systems, heart-shaped leaves

                                            but mostly what is not perceived.

What is forgotten, what is left behind,

                                                  the shape, structure, and limits have been designed.

My words too restricted,

                              the changes are conflicted and cannot be predicted.

 

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"I prefer winter and Fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape — the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show."  ~Andrew Wyeth

 

"As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity."- Jean Paul