It takes more than one swallow to make a summer, the saying goes. And it takes more than one snowfall to make a winter. On Sunday, I was willing to say that it was just one of those early snowfalls that one gets in northern Manitoba in October. A snowfall that would come and would go, sloppily melting away as the temperature crept back up over zero. But now I'm not so sure: it's snowed off and on throughout Monday and today it's still snowing. Is this it? Is this winter? Not all the leaves have fallen yet.
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A few words from Patrick Lane, from his poem "Winter 1," a peaceful moment taken from his short, fierce book simply titled Winter:
The generosity of snow, the way it forgives
transgression, filling in the many betrayals
and leaving the world
exactly as it was.
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