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In Memory of Snow, February 2040John Barron

John Barron — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 10:24:02 +0000

1st Snow was a kind of hand-wringing heat; mine burned psychedelic red with it. Where your footsteps trod, it cast blue shadows like a methane fire. Crystals, so many I couldn’t get the maths straight in my head, falling feathery, light … FeatherLite, my nan’s eiderdown, all put away now inside some cupboard. We [...]

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Occupy TimeBarbara Leckie

Barbara Leckie — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 08:00:26 +0000

A week ago the world outside my window in Ottawa was covered in snow. But today—in the month when people make resolutions, seek to realize resolutions, or reject resolutions—it is raining. I can hear the rain as I write. It would be a soothing sound if it did not also sound like the chronicle [...]

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Read: White Snow, SnowNancy Campbell

Nancy Campbell — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 08:00:33 +0000

Hau kea white snow, snow (Hawaiian) In this tropical archipelago, snow is most likely to be found on a simmering crater. In winter the temperature at the summits of Mauna Loa, Haleakala and Mauna Kea – the state’s three tallest volcanoes – drops to below freezing. Mauna Kea means ‘white mountain’ and it [...]

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