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reflected off

the icy trees

a blinking red light

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power outage

just past our fence

the whole valley dark

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slow accumulation

of ice

trees bow down

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steady on the ice

chickens

with feathered feet

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everywhere sheaths

of ice somehow

they speed up time

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power outage

after the ice cracks

there’s another sound

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the power returns

all the little candles

look dirty

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icy tree limbs

crack and fall

voices in the distance

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don’t worry

that’s just ash

not the beetle

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out there

encircling the house

trees cracking from the ice

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