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Superior Winter

by Andrew Douglas

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From upcoming album "Other Poems or Shitalking Mushrooms"

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Two days of blinding whiteout
Visibility mere meters
It's February
Above Superior

...Still, the pandemic

Entire towns, shut down
Sheltered in place
"staying safe"
There's never been an off-season like this
In a spotty motel, the bed bugs are ravenous

I see a coyote through the window
He doesn't get to go inside
I think about that sometimes…

Instead, he stocks the shore
a red-stained coat exudes triumph
Satisfied, he curls up on the lee side of a snow drift -
raising his head periodically
What does he think about?
Does anything torment him?

I'm beckoned to venture into the elements
there's an primal energy in the ambivalent winds
I stay until my internal alarm sounds:

"Seek shelter immediately"

but I don't listen

For here I stand on the precipice
Feeling like the inverse of Icarus

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released March 25, 2021
Read by Bretton Lee John

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Andrew Douglas Calgary, Alberta

Calgary-based singer-songwriter/busker/
poet specializing in humorous melancholy

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