White Night

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And there was such a midnight

when the air took on a glow

and the sky began to loosen

and the dark was lit by snow

and the woods were sooner filled

with a whispering gypsy light

that danced across my footprints,

then swaddled them in white.

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(c) 1993, 2017 Betty Hayes Albright

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(a re-post)

 

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