early

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that dark damp

presents with a low, water-dense fog

which will, lifeless, hang limp later,

things are damp; waterlogged in high pressure, even in low precipitation.

a back field, concrete hard, inhales as the damp seeps lower, topsoil deep.

short, stiff, mowed grass blades, platinum wet, wake their chlorophyll for day, dark though it is.

that's when soaked songbirds think about seed left behind,

early day grogginess notwithstanding.
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