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A Bridge over Ice (a poem for alex pretti)
In the blue hour before dawn this morning, I was standing in near-darkness in our greenhouse chicken coop in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. I was shivering in the -18° weather despite wearing all the layers I own. It was my fourth and final pre-dawn trip to the coop that night. Each trip out, I would kneel to light the emergency propane heater we fire up to knock back the killing cold when the temperatures drop below zero.
Over the course of those semi-hourly trips out into the starry cold, a poem had begun to take shape in my mind.
The Uncanny Shepherdess (a poem)
Originally published in March 2025.
There is a shepherdess down the road a ways.
She is known for her two-headed lambs
and six-toed barn cats,
but not for her beauty.
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