Along the line of low hills there,
Dark pine and oak stripped to winter runes
Glint in the cold as if carved from stone.
A flock of black birds scores the air,
Crackling like static, and disappears.
In a hoarse whisper the wind dies down.
Field and pasture lie brown and bare
Beneath the moon’s
high, soundless soaring.
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