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December Morning In The Desert by Alberto Rios

The morning is clouded and the birds are hunched,More cold than hungry, more numb than loud, This crisp, Arizona shore, where desert meetsThe coming…

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“It is a cold news in stark announcement, — The myriad stars making bright the black, As if the sky itself had been snowed upon.”

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