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Walking Home on a Winter Night 

When it snows
     and steps crunch
          on the stillness of silence
             with a sound crystal-crispy
                                      and bold.

When it snows
     and the flakes gently tingling
           make eyelashes
               wet-heavy with silvery
                                      cold.

When the delicate
    swirls of the air
      lace the knotty
    transparency
         of the stiff-frozen 
                                      pond.

When the sun is a-south
     and the summer
         glows softly
      somewhere
          afar
                            and beyond.