MaryJane Nordgren - Author of the Nandria Series

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welcome, dear one

she trudged up the slope

leaving her car on the clear

almost-flat before the abandoned

house

carrying still warm coconut soup

and crab cakes for my supper

but mostly to see that i was

well

signs that i’d tried to check

for mail but no one had tried

to fight the ice under the snow

to deliver