Cold

Posted on January 26, 2007
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There’s a poem in my book Customs that begins, “The oldest words are those invented for weather.” I had a note from a friend on the west coast yesterday who is selling his house. When he was building it twenty years ago, we put that line into the concrete forms when a retaining wall was being poured. Now he’s moving, but he wanted me to know the words were still in the wall. The clerk at the local store in our hamlet & I always talk about the weather — she loves snow — & then we joke about talking about the weather. Tonight’s no joke, though. It’s not ten o’clock yet & it’s -20(f). Note: the link above it to Amazon, where the one review describes the book as “Christian.” Once I was a Christian, when I was a little boy, but I was never all that sure about it even then. It’s not how I would describe the book. Just saying.