Temperate climate
soil is loose and ready
to cultivate
arugula radicchio
celery cabbage kale
chard favas beets
made it through
kept warm under snowfall
now start to grow
nibbled by rabbit and slugs
buds swell on the fig
red of rhubarb emerges
cold brewed
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dVerse prompt to write a quadrille and use the nibble word.
I have forgotten what breakfast tastes like. Although it is known as the most important meal of the day, I sleep through it. No smells of bacon and coffee brewed. It is winter and I am asleep in my bed. Outside the plants do the same. They are not yet ready to be uncovered.
deep roots in soil
keep life suspended in time
waiting for new warmth
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dVerse prompt for a winter haibun
Things that make me shiver—
a windchill temperature
of minus degrees
sharp cutting edge
of the freeze
Things that make me shiver—
a covid booster in winter
feeling cold to the bone
can’t get warm
shivered so hard
I thought I’d have a seizure
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dVerse prompt to write a quadrille using the word shiver.
I was snowed in for days
kept the fire going in the woodstove
plenty of food in the pantry
wind picked up the drifts
moved them to fencing
all the while I fed logs
into the crackling fire
waiting for the thaw
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dVerse prompt to write a narrative. I am traveling in North Dakota and imagining what it would be like here in winter.
New Year’s Eve had snow
Cold and windy
13° warming up
Robersons shoveled walk and drive
Sunny -8°
Starting to snow
16° cloudy
Snow 1″
Robersons shoveled our walk again
Snow again 1″
Robersons shoveled!
Started snowing about 2″
Robersons shoveled again
Didn’t do anything
too cold and windy
Still cold and windy
20° below zero
30° below zero
Our house nice and warm
0° warming up
16° snowing
Snowed most all day
Robersons shoveled again
Still snowing
4″ fell since yesterday
Robersons shoveled our walk
-20° sunny
More snow
Still below zero
Robersons shoveled again
-13° sunny
0° warming up
Snowed a little in the night
Robersons shoveled snow
21° windy
Snowed all night
Robersons shoveled our snow again
-2° windy blowing snow
-10° cold
31° warmed up
Warmed up
Warmed up
Warmed up
20° started snowing and blowing
20° snowing and ice
Trees and wires covered by ice
Ice still on trees
Lots of broken limbs
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Memoir of Iowa winter January and February 1985 and good neighbors to my aging parents
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