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blizzard of '96

I had this dream
that I stood on the top of the comcast building
which is probably the tallest building in the city
and made it snow
by unrolling a giant carpet
that was 15 feet deep
and made of snow
leaving the blizzard of ‘96
looking like your little 12 year old cousin.




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you once mentioned
that cornflakes had ruined your life.

I thought about this often
that winter I stitched several t shirts together
to make something like snow,
and draped plastic over the sidewalk

until certain things could run their course.




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now,
the other day I salted the walk
so that I could feel like the sort of person
who salts their walk.

and I don’t know where the snow went.
it was there, and then
it was all a river of ice
which is nice,
when it’s just something you look at.

from somewhere upstairs next door
a girl held a flashlight on me
unceasingly
for five minutes.

1 comment:

Rose said...

these are really great, sasha. i haven't read your stuff in a while, and it's changing. I like it. I especially love the first two lines of the second bit.

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