it's been weeks after the fall of leaves, and yet, there's still no snow... and now, with Thanksgiving come and gone... we are still waiting.
it is a wet november day here... and i have Simon&Garfunkel's Kathy's Song lingering about my mind... it's awfully trying to get beyond this point in my programming... and while wandering in my restlessness, i am reminded by this poem selected by Garrison Keillor last tuesday... i am hoping that the snow might arrive...
Interlude
We are waiting for snow
the way we might wait for a train
to arrive with its cold cargo
it is late already, but surely
it will come.
We are waiting for snow
the way we might wait
for permission
to breathe again.
For only the snow
will release us, only the snow
will be a letting go, a blind falling
towards the body of earth
and towards each other.
And while we wait at this window
whose sheer transparency
is clouded already
with our mutual breath,
it is as if our whole lives depended
on the freezing color
of the sky, on the white
soon to be fractured
gaze of winter.
-- by Linda Pastan --
from Queen of a Rainy Country.
© W. W. Norton & Company.
It snowed in Illinois last week, or two weeks ago! Don't worry, tiggie, once it starts snowing, it'll really *snow*! Stay warm!
Posted by: monoceros on Wednesday, 29 November, 2006 at 18:17 hrsit's -11degC all day, all night... there won't be any snow when it gets so cold... it actually feels 10degC lower than it really is... brrr brrrrrrrr brrrrrr... it will be warmer when it snows! =C)
i hope it snows soon... =CS
Posted by: overacuppa on Wednesday, 29 November, 2006 at 21:28 hrsBy the way, I love Linda Pastan's poems. They're wonderful!
Posted by: monoceros on Saturday, 2 December, 2006 at 03:04 hrsi should look up more of her poems... i love this one about waiting for snow!
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