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Breaking through

Fresh holes gape in a maple trunk, as if from some Roman soldier’s lance. The new, smooth ground of ice and sleet hasn’t quite set; I keep breaking through. Cardinals peck at the plowed road, gathering faux teeth for their reliquaries.

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Wendy Lee Spacek

There Is a Bird Above You!

All day I'd been tracking along the Monon in search of some sign of spring, but only once had come across Kentucky blue grass curling up a dormant poplar's trunk and small purple flowers dotting a crushed lawn. Then, this one prize. A cardinal, a preacher! & then a little cold rain fell.

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