This is a Picture of Wind: A Weather Poem for Phones (Q9797)
creative work by J. R. Carpenter
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | This is a Picture of Wind: A Weather Poem for Phones |
creative work by J. R. Carpenter |
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2018
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January. Mists make dangerous travel. The air loaded with freezing particles. Attached to fixed objects. A blade of grass. Some garden shrubs. Spreading tufts of crystals. Gigantic specimens of snow-white coral. An elegant fringe. The rime falls. Transparent. In heaps beneath the trees. (English)
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February. It’s still raining. It has always rained. We are silt dwellers, tide chasers, puddles, floods, mud. The river runs brown topsoil down and out to sea. From a fir erupts a murmur of starlings. By fir I also mean fur. A pelt of needles, hackles raised. Gale force ten at the river mouth. The scale goes up to twelve. After that the sky breaks. The fir comes down and takes two eucalyptus with… (English)
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