Sleigh Ride

By Gerri Patterson, January 31, 2012
(Photo: Rudy Arnold)

Homemade snow pants of thick wool, ice caked on my jacket sleeves and on my mittens: I head out with my best friend, Rita doll...

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Thirty Degrees Below Zero

By Mary Wlodarski, January 31, 2012
(Photo: Patricia Bour-Schilla)

I like the cold so brisk and fresh

it cuts through clothes

and crimps nose hair...

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Saturday Morning

By Michael Teffera, January 7, 2012
(Photo: Henry Jackson)

It was around 9:55 a.m. I was waiting for the library to open.
I saw a cute Ethiopian girl coming toward me. She had dark brown skin, short hair, and a pretty baby face.
“What time is it?” She asked me. Her English accent was very good.

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The Dead of Winter

By Richard Broderick, January 7, 2012
(Photo: Patricia Bour-Schilla)

We speak of it
as though it were a place,
a battlefield strewn
with corpses,
a burial ground
of shattered statues
hooded with snow.

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A Little Brown Bird

By Julia Klatt Singer, June 3, 2011
(Photo: Juan Tello/Flickr Creative Commons)

Just landed on my windowsill.
Thought about coming in...

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Too Big for My Skin

By Desdamona, May 11, 2011
Desdemona

My momma never told a lie, she couldn’t when the truth was clear
Through stretch marks and crow’s feet, the truth is what she told me
Not through words, but through the curve of her hips
The gleam in her eyes . . . the memories on her lips
She is so beautiful, that her skin can’t even keep her concealed
She is so beautiful, that in her early days
she carried another life inside her, manifested the fire
Sending her existence higher...

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Cold Night

By Tim Nolan, March 25, 2011
Winter street scene, St. Paul, circa 1955. (Photo: Minnesota Historical Society)

My feet are cold—the car
is cold—the car sounds
like a bucket of bolts
Rolling down a hill—
it’s so cold that my breath
falls like ice from the roof...

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