| Momentous and trivial, I |
walk along the lake cliff |
and look north where the lake |
curls to a wisp through the hills |
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and say as if to the lake, |
I'm here, too, |
and to the winter storm centered |
gnarl-black over the west bank, |
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I nearly call out, it's me, I'm here: |
the wind-fined |
snow nicks |
my face, mists my lashes |
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and the sun, not dwindling me, goes |
on down behind the storm and the reed |
withes' wind doesn't whistle, brother! brother! |
and no person comes. |
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