A/N: Prompt 26: W. Y. Traveller: Snowflake

A drabble, set during the hiatus.


Snowflake


He scans the shelf,

Files written in

Familiar hand;

And soon locates

Holmes' microscope;

Excursion planned.

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Painstakingly,

He wraps it up

And leaves the room;

Determined to

Keep occupied,

Dispel the gloom.

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The park,

A favourite bench,

The surface white

With frost.

He'll study

What is here and now,

Not

What was lost.

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Snow caught,

Mid-fall,

And placed

On felted slide with care.

He views two unique

Snowflakes;

Unmatched

Anywhere.

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The first has softened

Margins;

Graceful shapes,

Combined.

The other, sparse,

Eccentric,

Sharper points

Defined.

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One breath, and in an instant,

Snowflakes disappear.

He sighs;

Ahead,

Alas,

Another lonely year.

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