Tracks

 

Here

is the cast of characters

in the story

I read in the snow:

two rabbits

snow disturbed
where a squirrel
dug up a buried meal
a small canine
perhaps the fox
I see some mornings
belly low
as it runs
paws prints
of larger canines
leaping
or plodding

happily beside

boot prints

snow shoes

skis

and the star-shaped

patterns

left by poles
and under the pine trees

tiny bird tracks

in the thin snow
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