Snow of the

-- A. R. Ammons

Snow of the 

right consistency,

temperature, and

velocity will

fall in a lee

slope

building out over

space a

promontory of

considerable

reach in

downward curvature:

and snow

will do this

not once

but wherever possible,

a similarity of effect

extended

to diversity's 

exact numeration

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here a month of snow,

more January than

February, intervenes

during which

I wrote

nothing: it is

the winter-deep, the 

annual sink:

leave it unwritten,

as snow unwrites

the landscape

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