My poem: Apricity: Gen

Title: Apricity
Poetic form: terza rima (a variation on)
Length: 256
No. of lines: 36
For: 2022 GYWO Yatzhee Roll #6
Prompt: apricity: the warmth of sun in winter

of soft touch of gold sun in wintertime
of heat and light which come when scarce come both
a contradiction brumal and sublime

a caress above subnivean growth
like gentle brush of hand about a crown
a pledge, a promise snug, a whispered oath

while slumbers on, the frozen underground,
an ardor presses on the surface still,
a layered incalescence eiderdown

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