MID-DECEMBER by Gerald England
A full moon shines over the morning frost; the lanes are full of late-fallen leaves; walking across the mulch is almost as tricky as treading over ice.
In town the carol-singers are in crowding the shopping-mall, while a group of muffled musicians play by the outside market.
This year but two robins on the early christmas cards; the squirrel still runs along the fence skirting our newly-erected shed.
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