Snowfall in Lent

Mimosa came unsought
in sunbursts on my hill.
Then snow hid, dot by dot,
my straightedge windowsill,

which, like a guillotine,
had severed out from in.
Now that the cut is clean,
Contrition, pull the pin.

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