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View Near Elizabethtown, N.J., 1847, by Régis François Gignoux
Ice Skating in January
by Gay Williford
A late afternoon sun
splatters a gray-blue sky
with soft peach highlights.
A numbing chill is felt
as nature is held still in the cold.
Tall, skeletal trees
frame a frozen lake,
where well-wrapped skaters
glide across the ice–
some to waltz, some to fall,
some to hover, some to shiver …
all displaying a love of this sport
whose frigid conditions must be accepted!
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