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Hailstones

Suddendly everything is still. Hailstones lay on the path and in clumps along the garden edges like frozen spawn left by storm clouds now dying into the distances of the evening. The light is muted, the cold, soundless air hangs breathless in the trees as if waiting for the clouds offspring to hatch and float them off into the arms of the night.

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Date: 5/4/2023 8:00:00 AM
I love this. I read it to be a mental landscape of 'are we done?' then look around and there's a bit of recovering to do but the world still turns. Of course it may be about hailstones and I'd like that too. Because it's brilliant on both levels or because I'm a fan. Not sure anymore! (I am sure - I really like it!)
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Paul Willason
Date: 5/4/2023 9:20:00 PM
Thanks Dilly. The poem probably is, on the surface, simply about hailstones, although a little deeper, carrying a suggestion of renewal through the imagination as it is the only faculty that can make the jump and transform the image. Appreciate yr kind words DD.
Date: 5/4/2023 6:10:00 AM
Very wistful, Paul. The calm 'after' the storm.
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Paul Willason
Date: 5/4/2023 9:11:00 PM
Thanks Lin for your comment. Appreciated.

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