XVI. Laying a Ghost: The Jeannette and the Fram
Wind, sleet. The branches sway,wonders if she'd ever be brave enough
Dreaming time has reversed—and you,It's snowing, it's returning to a town
Pealing, it tries to fill the cold night airgrow hot in the parking lot, though they're
How can they get the point of how a worldThat patch of white at the very end of the road
visitors' dugout. The osprey whose nest is atopHe never even dreams, being sheer snow;
Of meaning like these—the world created bySculpting each tree to fit your ghostly form.
The surge of swirling wind definesNever does any motion, sound, or light
Where, as I discover as I go throughPeople might see to be the opening
The high whites spread over the buried earth.His sightless eyes horribly watch the air;
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