1. Snow, everywhere, heavy as old boots, bright as a policeman's flashlight.
2. Night. Then day. Then night again. Dizziness. The carpet's range of aspects.
3. Birds bringing messages. Their particular songs. The feeder swaying.
4. An ambulance. Someone on the floor, then not.
5. Day, then night, then day again. A shifting array of shadows on the roof of an empty house.
6. White, everywhere. Sheets laundered a thousand times. An intrusive light, concentrated to a pinpoint.
7. Birds on the sill. Their particular coloring. The feeder still, on its pole.
8. Snow, everywhere. A new ramp, smelling of sawn pine.
9. Lights in the windows of a house. Lights like the golden skin of french fries on a plate.
10. Birds on bare branches in the yard. Silver wheels. The feeder taken down and filled.
11. All day, television interview programs. Dr. Phil right back after this break.
12. Snow, disappearing like memories. Afternoon sun, bright and harsh as temps from the agency.
13. Birds in flight over a house. Someone's photograph in a frame. An orange cat sunning itself, then nothing.
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for Thursday 13 and Midweek Motif--"winter."