32 Degrees (Haibun)

Shoveling snow at 32 degrees – I love it! – even when Mother Nature can’t decide what to send.  

“Snow!  Sleet!  How about slush?  Mmm … no.  Ice pellets, perhaps?  Let’s send it all!  Why not?”

I pause, turn up my collar, and listen.

velveteen – 
this whirr of wings 
over slush  

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Linked to Carpe Diem Haiku Kai – where our task was to write a haibun (brief prose that incorporates haiku) of 55 words or less – exploring the theme of “winter feeling”.  You may read the rest of the haibun in the linkup here. 

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