The mind's a cheerless flourish.

The mind's a cheerless flourish,

stark as deviation's

branch before the snow;

a dark cabin ogl through snowlight.

Crossing the hacked up sea

of snow, the month

waist-high, lunging and

capitulating, addressed on

resources that make no entire

JoELLEN KWIATEK'S first part Eleven Days Before Spring, was published in 1994 at HarperCollins. She teaches in The Writing Arts Department at SUNY Oswego.

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