Snow by Sharmagne Leland-St. John snow where dunes once radiated summer’s heat snow on heath and heather snow on shoreline bone white snow in vivid contrast against ink black branches railings and slippery stairs bleached by decades of sun now blanketed snow falling on cedar the world groggy slumbering beneath an achromatic quilt worst snow storm since eighteen hundred and sixty-one snow falling on Richmond an alabaster flurry of powder towhee’s sporadic diatonic song punctuates the dawn
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