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Degrees of Latitude
by Laurel Blossom
ISBN-10: 1-884800-80-7 |
from DEGREES OF LATITUDE We all lived together in the big stone house, my mother, my father, my two brothers and me. Like bats, avoiding each other by radar. ˚ Even now: When we (that is, Lionel and I) invite Buddy and his wife to go dancing, he says there’s a thirty percent chance. No, he says, you have to understand. That’s up from zero. ˚ Thirty-five million years ago. Ice began to form. ˚ In my crib I could hear them by the fireless fireside. In silhouette, silent, my Arctic family circle: mother, father, Buddy, Will. My father might have called it a den of inequity. In the dark above my crib: spirals swirling. In my held breath: Aurora borealis. |
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