I love the idea that it's the tundra speaking -- hadn't thought of
that at all, myself.
But it does speak, in its way.
On 1/22/08, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> wonderful Sharon. it's like a speech given by the tundra (or by the
> fox or hare that lives there), or a warning.
>
> KS
>
> On 22/01/2008, sharon brogan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > The tundra can soften, it can swallow you.
> > An eye accustomed to mountains must learn
> > to see small, to see the tiny pattern of lichen
> > crawling across an unbounded landscape.
> >
> > Land and sea, both flat as paper, only a thin
> > line between. Even the colors are close.
> > A village set down here is an alien thing,
> > an artifact on stilts, unlikely and unreliable.
> >
> > Here is a world without edge. Here there
> > is no horizon. Here, you know you are small.
> > The bear is a large thing. The sea is a large
> > thing. The ice is a large and dangerous thing.
> >
> > There are people who know the tundra,
> > but you are not of those people. You
> > are small. You are weak, and all that
> > you know is useless.
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> > ~ SB | http://www.sbpoet.com | =^..^=
> >
>
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