<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></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;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">Before the cold wind </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">captures the day,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">before the day </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">becomes the red tail of a</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">disappearing fox,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">before I lend myself to the </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">dawn of this moment</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">before awareness rushes into </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">the yes and the no</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">I can alight with the </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">white-throated sparrow on </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">a top branch crusted with snow </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">easing into a watchful moment</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">as the twig is shaken</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">the crystals dislodged </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">falling silently</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">to the drifts below</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">earth shudders in </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">acknowledgment</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">in grief </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">in acceptance </span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">and stilled</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">silence</span><div style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Gary Horvitz</span></div></div></body></html>