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Kim Whysall-Hammond (The Cheesesellers Wife)

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Bright winter pools lean against thesteep grassy rampartsand trees are doubled by reflection.Our path is not so much muddyas at swimming depthso we clamber up to wherelarge cloven hoofprintsembroider the rim.A fat old oakmoss green, porcine, thick with timeblocks our way,it’s toes scrabblingpushing into slushy mud. Copyright © 2018 Kim Whysall-Hammond


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Below the thunders of the upper deep;Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleepThe Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights fleeAbout his shadowy sides: above him swellHuge sponges of millennial growth and height;And far away into the sickly light,From many a wondrous grot and secret cellUnnumbered and enormous polypiWinnow with giant arms the slumber...


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Winter Dance

The long dance of winterstarts slow as starlightchildren stamping hard cold groundcracking ice over peat Slipping through fog’s silencethe women have donned heavy antlersto creep around the treescircle the swampclasp hands and spinas the sun spins and turnsso do they Men spurt from the longhousePelts moist with sweatLeap and cry out Songs build to a …


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Winter God

Tall, lean, feline, black eyed Winter is aprowlhigh-shouldered, haughty, sheswirls through branches that strain to catch herbleaches an expansive skywatches for lonely bones This night a god will sing in the stormlay her glitter cloak over allreveal a power and deadly gloryto make you question your beliefsas she slithers under doors to embrace yougnaws your …


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Had I the heaven’s embroidered cloths,Enwrought with golden and silver light,The blue and the dim and the dark clothsOf night and light and the half-light;I would spread the cloths under your feet:But I, being poor, have only my dreams;I have spread my dreams under your feet;Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. by W. …


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