-27C/-16F WC-38/-36 at 8:00 a.m. in Calgary today.

"People worried the world was about to end. 

A fish believed to have been extinct for seventy million years 

Came up in a fishing net off the coast of South Africa. 

I lay in my crib as the days got shorter and colder, 

And the first heavy snow fell in the night. 

Making everything very quiet in my room. 

I believe I heard myself cry for a long, long time." 

from Nineteen Thirty-Eight

by Charles Simic