The snow is blanketing the ground.
It mutes the wordless thrum and murmuring
That punctuates the world around
Our home. So let us speak a softer thing,
And let our words, like snow, mount into drifts
Of common, yet incomparable, gifts.
This poem is from the Winter / Spring 2025 issue of Modern Age.
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