Lost and found is my eureka! blog, my rediscovery of my short fiction and poetry submissions published in literary magazines and university literary journals some decades ago. Interspersed, occasionally, with more recent, hitherto unpublished pieces.
Wind spurts fierce thrusts compelling the snow to drift languidly and mound into voluptuous landscapes while evergreen boughs heavy with snow release great clumps themselves springing to height.
Lazy clouds of snow drizzle the landscape. Falling clumps freckling the grey sky, shifting clouds to pleasure the insistent sun. Shafts of light haze through the forest, firing the snow to silver crystals.
Through the soft and gentle stillness, the staccato of a hairy, red-capped woodpecker. Snow generously comforts a recently-bereaved copse of elm, maple and poplar, naked no longer. Trunks grey, black and brown stippled gloriously-blinding white.
Desiccated, bright orange bittersweet fruit cluster along their vines' chokehold on prickly Hawthorns. Their haws shy against the flamboyance of the others. The creek drifts clear and tinkling over gathered fall detritus now heavily banked in snow.
A raven crosses the undecided sky, its raucous call shredding the silence swift body a black arrow true to its mark. Soon, snow-muted silence regains its imperious reign.
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