"We wrote it on our papers
in round big shapes,
Jan., 1928.

The snow outside
glittered like mica-shavings
in the Alberta sunshine."

from A Seed of History

Margaret Avison

 

 

"The country of innocence is

a mistake of nature. The white

Geometry of winter leaves no margin

For error, no relic in the snow."

 

from The Geometry of Winter

 R.A.D. Ford

 

 

"NOT to forget the sullen, grey-cloaked sky

With red along its western hem

Not to forget brown leaves blown down a slope

and all my thoughts pursuing them!"

 

                     from Song to Myself

                          Dorothy Livesay

 

 

"Our best days are now a winter sky

White with coruscations of the clouds,

A mirror of the logos, flared

And cracked across our lives."

   

from Soliloquy to Absent Friends

D.G. Jones