full moon bright
shadows on the snow
the shapes on empty trees
shift so lowly
into the new year
a blank page
opening to vistas above
stars twinkling in ice
at least until the dawn
sun’s eye alighting
on the detritus
of the year now past
Douglas Barbour
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Swept snow, Li Po,
by dawn’s 40-watt moon
to the road that hies to office
away from home.
Lorine Niedecker
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