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Lawnfrost, glittering sparrows,

lights in the twig taut trees.

In the cold sky,

planes, planets,

space stations.

Grey stone college buildings

on the paws of the mountain,

empty of students

gone for Christmas.

Icy wind shrugs off

mountain’s hump.

Great mother bear of a mountain

emerges from hiding

when the leaves lawn her fur.

Rattlesnakes sleep in the

fat folds of her belly,

in the creases behind her knees.

Owls and woodpeckers

skim the gravestones—

buttons on her broad brown coat.