shimmering on the edge
of the horizon outside
my small apartment
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morning light beyond,
in the bleakness of winter —
a promise of hope

sparrows on the wire,
silhouettes in the dawning
of the morning light
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the overhead lamp:
dull, citrinated with age,
shadow of dead fly

shadows in the field —
cold figures in the half-light,
growing at day's edge