End of January

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Rain-spit feeds the beads and drips
on and from the twigs and pegs
silver-blades untidy grass;
softly January slips

as minute dots of flies yet pass
through level calm to seed a breeze.

Deep in winter though we are,
drained the year down to the dregs,
green shoots push through rotting leaves
and darkness rarely bares a star.

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