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Just Found This! Almost had forgotten it existed...

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Dylan’s January Fort  On Peter’s Hill, a few hundred homes nestled, slender skyward reaching, blanketed in oppressive white.  Silence save imagined crackling from wood stoves. Behind 30 Ashfield in the small patch of land stands our creation now encrusted in sharp stone shoals, burning ice.  Its wonder still steadily glows. A week earlier exhausted from life  and shoveling, surprised  myself  starting the pile.  I smelled  salty sand, remembering sitting  with cousins as we dug seeking China. Breaking the silence scattered  snow offers came hurried,  excited footsteps,               descending                                 sol-                                     fege. Out the door a burst of orange, your mouth  dropped, eyes widened, countless  possibilities.  “A tunnel Dada!”   Complying I pushed aside cautious tendencies and the  mountain’s center ’til we both could burrow through. You shuffled back and for