Mary Ruefle

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Think Snow

I believe milk is melted snow.
I believe I went sledding once,
hit a tree and shattered my glasses.
Worse things have happened,
to older people.
Birds don’t know where to go in a snow
and so go very deep inside of themselves.
Newly fallen snow, the world’s
worst jigsaw puzzle.
Dirty snow welcomes everyone,
like the poverty train.
A woman in furs is a statue of snow.
After a conversation that was useful
in the beginning, snow becomes useless
and, finally, worthy of blame.
We were now hoist by our own snow.
There is no harder work
than not snowing.
Snow has time on its hands,
never afraid of dying
but always in a hurry to.
Snow, the first séance.
We thought about it for a while
and then looked up.
I knew there would be a picture
of a samovar in the dictionary,
and there was.

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