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“Spring Outing” by Nani Furse

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

Storm in these hills
frays each edge
of symmetry:  shadow-snow
drawn under earth and stone
by threaded rain.
Bone-red willows
banked by sage
tangle cold echoes,
sharing the motion
of water turned wind
in search for transparent green.
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Nani Lii S. Furse is a SAHM, proof that she’s learning textese in an effort to communicate with her teens and young adult children.  She earned a [...]