Inside, Outside

Inside:

Blue sky and sunshine

glimpsed through the window;

a perfect spring day.

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Outside:

Fields dotted with lambs

hunkered down, soft pink ears

twitching in the cold east wind.

Cold snap

This week I have been curled in upon myself

like a fern frond

waiting beneath the snow

for spring warmth

and lengthening days

as the bitter eastern winds howl

Snowdrops

Snowdrops punctuate the January gloom

Each year I am lifted by

This ordinary miracle.