Waist high, windblown snowdrifts

Sloping, snow covered fields

Lopsided snowmen wearing woolly hats

To wake at dawn and hear the slipping

And sliding of loosening snow

Peep at the sky, the colour of a flock of seagulls

The thaw had begun.

Blossom-like confetti, sprinkled magically

Spring has arrived

Bicycle rides, peering over hedges into buttercup-filled fields

A penc...

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