* * *
shyness left, replaced...

Fluttering
Butterflies...

...

*Authors note: like a pendulum, this poem should...
from the twelfth strike to the first and then back...

+ + + + + +
+ R.I.P...

. . . and so it happened,
a newest family member...

O O O O O O O O O O O
O O O O O O O O O...

...

.
Siberia whispered a frosty kiss...

.
Shall I compare thee to a page of old...

The landscape lay cracked and parched,
Heat still lays beneath the dust, but...

. . . so there I was, knee deep in
a frozen world - literally transported...