Thursday, April 15, 2021

Evening Walk - April 9 2021

 

Evening Walk

April 9 2021

 

The ruts are full

and puddles of standing water pit the road.

I sink into the squishy surface

and my footprints quickly fill.

 

A cold fog has settled

and dusk is descending.

Until darkness encloses me

and I am walking blind,

the dense mist

scattering my feeble light.

 

The remnants of soiled snow

under the trees

are rapidly disappearing.

Sodden leaves

dead since fall

are plastered to the ground.

 

Even sound is muffled,

as if the night had swallowed it up

the world receded.

 

A full moon tonight

they tell me.

I would never have known.

 

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