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From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 4:43 PM
Subject: snap at minus 28C
>a haze hangs
> across the city
>
> a snow fall
> s low pall
>
> bells would crack
> tolled in such cold
>
> breath short
> white in the air
>
> the city's exhaust
> ion
>
> 30 I 08
> Edmonton (windchill minus 38C)
> Douglas Barbour
> [log in to unmask]
>
I like this. The broken - cold-splintered - couplets. Ending with "ion" -
perfect. One critical question remains: WHY LIVE THERE? - Though perhaps
global warming will turn the place balmy.
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