Snow on ice the day after Christmas. We go for a walk and everything is quiet; just one car passes on the road. Our boots crunch against the cold snow; a spring burbles up out of the earth and rushes, ice free, beneath the trees. Silence: the snow has muffled the tinkling of the ice covered branches as the trees sway under their heavy loads. All day we are in twilight. And then night falls, and with it more snow.
Federico at Home
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Because he was a gardenerSprawling with his love deep in the night Where he
raised the autumn hillsOf Andalusia, scented with duende And pruned the old
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