By Jim Bates
After the snowstorm
Winter's soft gentle beauty
Snow on evergreens.
At the skating rink
Happy folks spin and swirl
A winter ballet.
Big cold moon rising
Moonlight streaming brilliantly
Icy land sparkling.
Bright morning sun
Birds flit through snow covered trees
Singing merrily.
Jim lives in a small town twenty miles west of Minneapolis, Minnesota. His stories have appeared online in CafeLit, The Writers’ Cafe Magazine, Cabinet of Heed, Paragraph Planet, Nailpolish Stories, Ariel Chart, Potato Soup Journal, Literary Yard, Spillwords and The Drabble, and in print publications: A Million Ways, Mused Literary Journal, Gleam Flash Fiction Anthology #2 and The Best of CafeLit 8. You can also check out his blog to see more: www.theviewfromlonglake.wordpress.com.
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