vignettes

This week's prompt is:
dazzling 🌅

Anyone can join, with a 50-word creative fiction vignette in the comments. Your vignette does not have to include the prompt term. Any definition of the word can be used.

God of our fathers

God of our fathers, whose almighty hand
Leads forth in beauty all the starry band
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before spring to after

A vast flock rises up like smoke, shifting about, and divides, with the larger part soaring over the highway to settle on the trees on the other side, and the smaller sinking back to the trees that they had sprung from.

On the snowy slope, not all trees are leafless. Some are saplings still bearing leaves of yesteryear, still hanging on. Some are white as parchment, some are copper, some are shades of gold between the two, and they are all intermixed so they must be different trees, some bleaching more easily than others.

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