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Snow in Alabama
falls hard
clinks when it hits
some call it sleet
but get out the snow shovel
and the hot chocolate
stay off the roads
some crazy people out there
they're not used to snow
oh, it stopped

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For Inktober Friday & Saturday

Winter’s Cold Heart

a lunegay

winter stirs at the

cave’s dark mouth

a pure puff of white

burnt-metal stench manifests

louring clouds brighten briefly

something beats against

bone chill wind

shadow wanes and swells

out of the wrack a

dopplered scream

the blood-spattered field

in blowing snow something moves

amber glint blinks much too close

riding against the

snow dragon

bones for the spring melt

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teardrop clear flakes
are wet before they land
Alabama snow




No wonder the schools are closed.

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cyborg ship
joyriding the nebula
remembers snow

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winter mist
Alabama dreams of snow

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a dusting of snow
could have sworn this was Alabama
not Michigan

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raised fir roots guard
a crescent of blue snow
the low sun

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Alabama blizzard

snow under fence and walnut
damp leaves under that

snowman bellies
all that's left
sunshine diet

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snow on the fields
Publix closes cos you can
SEE snow from the street




#Alabama

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Alabama snow
sticks to some things
dark wet roads

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Snow

capping each post
capturing the travels
of small creatures
slicking the roads
breaking bumpers
building muscles
breaking hearts
it's becoming a legend
here in the South
children know OF it only
like heaven or hell
they've never been there

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a teensey day
may break 20F
70s b4 week's end
that's Bama 4 u

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So it actually did precipitate in Tuscaloosa last night. We had an accumulation of about 1 inch of snow, with a little ice at the bottom. Needless to say, civilization teetered on the brink in this part of the world.

As soon as the sun hit the roof this morning, even though it was actually still below freezing, water started cascading off, along with large chunks of softening snow.

There is still snow out there now, and as the sun sets behind the trees, things are stiffening up.

On another subject, Rhysling nominations started to come in. I am seeing some great poems that will be in the anthology this year. If you are a member of the SFPA, and you have not yet nominated any poems, please do. You have about five weeks

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Today it might snow a little bit
heaven forfend! Let's cancel school
don't go to work
stay home and laze
reread science-fiction classics
do those chores you
blew off last night
but don't go sledding
or make snowfolk
it didn't snow at all

the blizzard of 2011

I would be mailing dreams and nightmares 88 tomorrow, but we are even now being pelted with sleet and just about everything is closed tomorrow. Of course the post office will be open, if they still take that pledge, but supposedly the streets are going to be icy. The city is closed, the state is closed, the schools are closed, the University is closed, etc. I guess that means I can do some more writing on the trace fossil book tomorrow.

Charlottesville winter

Flexible Flyer
does a 180
keeps on going
it's all fun and games
till we hit the dogwood
face roll
collar snow laugh
sister not crying.

let's do it again
but this time
all three of us

haiku

potted hibiscus
waits for spring
snow falls