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James Applewhite

Poetry

Winter 1988

The Snow’s Code

By James Applewhite

A cedar like a lancet window Down the snow-loaded aisles seemed A Black Forest icon. Hoffmann or Hans Christian Andersen. Trees feathered Softly swan-white on gray duck bark. Cold was […]