Variations on a Theme by Edward Ahern

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j re crivello

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Lighting the Cold

The imperious winter sun glares at

snowbanks and windshields,

exposing every aberration in

overloaded brightness and shadow.

Warmth and thaw are ignored for

the subliming of ice into vapor.

Sun burn cohabitates with frost bite.

It cuts into this world, indifferent

to things surviving or dormant.

The play of its light is cruel.

february sun

gelid illumination

sun burn and frost bite