<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(83, 129, 53); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 26pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">After the Winter</span><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">by Claude McKay<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, serif;">Some day, when trees have shed their leaves<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, serif;"> And against the morning’s white<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, serif;">The shivering birds beneath the eaves<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, serif;"> Have sheltered for the night,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, serif;">We’ll turn our faces southward, love,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, serif;"> Toward the summer isle<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, serif;">Where bamboos spire the shafted grove<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, serif;"> And wide-mouthed orchids smile.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, serif;">And we will seek the quiet hill<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, serif;"> Where towers the cotton tree,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, serif;">And leaps the laughing crystal rill,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, serif;"> And works the droning bee.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, serif;">And we will build a cottage there<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, serif;"> Beside an open glade,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, serif;">With black-ribbed blue-bells blowing near,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, serif;"> And ferns that never fade.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><br></div>————————————————-<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/">http://www.moscowcares.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. 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