Category Archives: snow

drifting

Snowstorm relentless reels like film to screen and headlights strobe particulate invasions: white missiles veer like shrapnel missing close I’m driving hard into a winter maelstrom. O let me stay within the road’s confines and let my eyes see more … Continue reading

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cold

The truck backed into our yard from the scrubby alley and dumped a load of slabs: bark cull from the saw mill. Mainly eight feet long, rough sawn on one side, scabby jackpine bark on the other, waiting to be … Continue reading

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shovelling out

Old years ago, the jaunty task of cleaning out a driveway after it had filled with snow was frivolous stuff: a way of showing off for girls how easily he sectioned out each cube of snow and hurled the hefty … Continue reading

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