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Winter Wood (Anna)

Winter wood is damp and dark
Ice cling to it live or down
Insects dormant, in cracks of bark
And shadows creep across its frown

But winter wood is warm at night
It burns between us hot and bright
Winter's maid with grips for good
And Anna - in the winter wood

Winter woods creak in the wind
No leaves to break their sound or mind
They threaten creeks as beavers do
To spread wet lands backed up behind

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And winter woods offer some escape
To hide from fields and blowing spite
But there within are also traps
More lurking beasts to pursue life

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Anna in the winter's good
She brings the warmth a woman could
Anna knows these feathers down
And keeps this well-split wood around

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Winter wood seeks damp and dark
Gleaming drops that cling and call
Your sex is dawning cracks apart
And shadows lick the fire's wall

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Anna in the winter would

1/21/26

Obstructed View: Winter Wood (for Anna)

Demo - 1/21/26

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