{"id":457,"date":"2007-01-26T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2007-01-26T05:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=457"},"modified":"2007-01-26T21:10:29","modified_gmt":"2007-01-27T02:10:29","slug":"poetry-friday-seriously-i-need-some-snow-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=457","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Friday: Seriously, I Need Some Snow Already."},"content":{"rendered":"

{Note: Head here<\/a><\/strong> at Chicken Spaghetti for this week’s Poetry Friday round-up} . . .<\/em> <\/p>\n

Winter has finally come to Massachusetts.\u00a0 Sort of.\u00a0 We’re finished with that weird,\u00a0wrong, lingering balminess that made Christmas seem more surreal than festive.\u00a0 It’s really really really cold out there now.\u00a0 There’s what David Foster Wallace<\/strong><\/a> called a “true, religious-type wind”<\/strong><\/a> blowing around.\u00a0 But.\u00a0\u00a0January is almost over, and we haven’t even had a single inch of snow.\u00a0 Not one.\u00a0 A couple of flurries – that’s it.<\/p>\n

I moved up here for snow.\u00a0\u00a0What the hell?\u00a0 Is it really just El Nino, or is this\u00a0global warming?\u00a0 Have I seen the last of the serious,\u00a0two-foot New England blizzards?\u00a0 Do I have to move to\u00a0Saskatchewan? What is the point of single-digit temperatures with you-don’t-even-wanna-know wind chill factors if there’s NO SNOW?<\/p>\n

Anyway, here’s a bit from a poem that pretty much sums up the weirdness: “A Winter Without Snow”<\/strong><\/a> by J.D. McClatchy<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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For Emerson, a century ago and farther north,
\nWhere the country has an ode’s jagged edges,
\nIt was “frolic architecture.” Frozen blue-<\/p>\n

Print of extravagance, shapes of a shared life
\nLeft knee-deep in transcendental drifts:
\nThe isolate forms of snow are its hardest fact.<\/p>\n

Down here, the plain tercets of provision do,
\nTheir picket snow-fence peeling, gritty,
\nHolding nothing back, nothing in, nothing at all.<\/p>\n

Down here, we’ve come to prefer the raw material
\nOf everyday and this year have kept an eye
\nOn it, shriveling but still recognizable–<\/p>\n

A sight that disappoints even as it adds
\nA clearing second guess to winter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can read the rest here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

{Note: Head here at Chicken Spaghetti for this week’s Poetry Friday round-up} . . . Winter has finally come to Massachusetts.\u00a0 Sort of.\u00a0 We’re finished with that weird,\u00a0wrong, lingering balminess that made Christmas seem more surreal than festive.\u00a0 It’s really really really cold out there now.\u00a0 There’s what David Foster Wallace called a “true, religious-type […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-friday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}