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Mark Svenvold - Relearning Winter

Hello Winter, hello flanneled
blanket of clouds, clouds
fueled by more clouds, hello again.

Hello afternoons, 
off to the west, that silver
of sunset, rust-colored
and gone too soon.

And night (I admit to a short memory)
you climb back in with chilly fingers
and clocks, and there is no refusal:
ice cracks the water main, the garden hose
stiffens, the bladed leaves of the rhododendron
shine in the fog of a huge moon.

And rain, street lacquer,
oily puddles and spinning rubber,
mist of angels on the head of a pin,
hello,

and snow, upside-down cake of clouds,
white, freon scent, you build
even as you empty the world of texture-
hello to this new relief,
this new solitude now upon us,
upon which we feed.

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Poet: Mark Svenvold
Poem: Relearning Winter
Volume: Soul Data
Year: Published/Written in 1998

Comment 1 of 1, added on July 25th, 2008 at 8:30 PM.
red prayer of the ghost

welcome my son where have you been,welcome to the historic war, war of pens, wra of games so i just come to tell you that here i stand once again when you been hovering around angelsplease link to my centerblog.net that is zobairi8zebra.centerblog.net



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