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Friday, January 7, 2011

Indiana Snow



It was a light snowfall, a heavy gray sky, no sun



the red bud leaves had never fallen. They hung preserved,


freeze-dried, bleached out pinkish peach, an ornament

The color of a powder puff. The omnipresent

heavy sky

Moon dusting of snow. Talcum powder

blowing across the road.


Sky blends with asphalt parking lot horizon



the world brought in closer the distance



out of sight, out of mind.



Big hats. Big coats.



A splattered pumpkin in the street as a last act of defiance



A memory of black ice on Cedar Canyon Road. Fishtailing inexplicably

and then back again. Clear, invisible ice, you don't believe it

Cotton candy cologne wafting out from the blue shaded room

drab things stand out against a white sky. The green, the fringe of the fir tree

so graceful

leafless branches form a lattice

elephants, candles



Bigger, fluffier flakes are now swirling, dropping tongue-ward

muffled quiet

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