Coffee-break

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Cold stream of air,
clear, raw sky,  rare
wisps and little shrouds
or shawls of clouds
fast fleeting,

low sun lancing,
screened less
by intervening
trees' unleaved undress.

I stand in fleece
and boots, out back
a breath, a break
of afternoon, the stir,
to mark the slide away
of bright and shivering day.

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