The raw brightness

of blue air,

acuity of lawn

grass salvaging green

from a past exposed,

and luster of snow’s

blank white, tethering

distant ridge lines

brings force

to the great body

of reviving lake.

Water, broken,

pulls out from shore’s

shadow, along

invigorated

currents, flexing

the slow surface

light’s tips hit,

their driving

jewel-like

puncture wounds

bedazzling

the elemental

meeting place.

Across the bay

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