Drenched Fire and Snowfall

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Drenched Fire
(by Sandra Pancoast)

Drenched fire clings to the trees.
It blazes submerged in
shallow mud-bottomed pools,
tree limbs darker
and flames more bright
for their coat of wet.
Fire swirls through
the rain and wind
landing on
sodden pages
of newspaper
and gray rooftops,
but catches nothing else
on fire - yet
eventually,
it will burn itself out
and leave
dead leaves
like delicate pages,
like brown ashes,
to crumble underfoot.

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Snowfall
(by Sandra Pancoast)

Behold the cloud dust on the ground,
the frozen carpet of powdery white,
that softly buries all below it,
and hides it from the winter light.
It captures in its fleeting mold
things the eye might miss --
the imprints of all that touches
its expectant white surface.


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