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Old lady nails a yellow 5 on the door post

Raises her reedy voice to the widening sky

Moonlight, starlight

the solstice is coming

Ice light, snow light

winter stars humming

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Redtail, blue jay,

woodpecker, finch

Sing a song of four birds

a pocket full of leaves

Round the house

Round the house

a pocketful of grief

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Old year, new year

heavenly wings

Angels, ancestors

what will they bring?