Winter

Music: Kyrie from the Missa quarti toni
By Tomas Luis de Vittoria. Sequenced by John H. McCloskey, at Kunst der Fuge.

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Winter howls like winds or wolves or weeping, Inviting us to witness pain and death. No truth can better penetrate the shell That insulates our empathy so well, Essence of the entropy of breath Returning us to one another's keeping.