<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 22px; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-style: inherit; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: rgb(18, 18, 18);">Winter Walk</span><span style="font-size: 22px; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-style: inherit; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: rgb(18, 18, 18);"> </span></div><div><aside data-gu-name="meta" class="dcr-1fnjjtg" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-width: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; 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font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-width: inherit; line-height: 1.4; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; font-size: 16px;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">She left the hut and bright log fire at noon<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">And walked outside on crisp white winter snow<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">To find the iced slopes shadowed like the moon,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">The wild wood desolate and bare below;<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">The red trees wet, adrift with icy flow,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">The evergreens with glassy needled leaves;<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">A bloodstone veined red and white this view weaves.</font></div><div id="sign-in-gate" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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font-size: 16px;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">But lifted off the path like crystal spheres<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">There lay cut prints of glinting stylised forms<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Of birds not seen, large sparkling twig-like spears,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">And squirrel pricks where fox’s paw transforms<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">White single roses out of petal storms;<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">While keltic scrolls transcribe where birds had been:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Then stamped in ice another track was seen.</font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-width: inherit; line-height: 1.4; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; font-size: 16px;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">A slight right turn of foot. She sensed him there,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tree like with raincoat shouldered, fine large looks,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">A four-armed god. From this sweet honeyed snare<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">She turned, upspraying, Marsh Tits, Finch and Rooks,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Through brushwood hills, seeing by frosted brooks<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">His footprints: these she retraced like a bride<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">With loaves and wood returned to his keen side.</font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-width: inherit; line-height: 1.4; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; font-size: 16px;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;">- Lynette Roberts</span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></aside></div></div></div></body></html>