Thursday, December 16, 2010

Walking Beside a Creek

By Ted Kooser

Walking beside a creek
in December, the black ice
windy with leaves,
you can feel the great joy
of the trees, their coats
thrown open like drunken men,
the lifeblood thudding
in their tight, wet boots.

From The Writer's Almanac 12.16.10

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