Seasonal Affective Conversation



We have here, she says, only one sun in the month.
That sun is winter.
When you walk in the country, she further confides,
that country is winter.
When we do not know whom to accuse, she adds,
we accuse winter.
Further I ask:
Who’s that woman with the three-legged dog?
The winter?

(I write you from the bottom of the world,
where snow gets packed to ice,
ice further to stone.)

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