eiht sanephre
COLOGNE
125
ME
PA.
WE
The field of snow ate snow
until its cheeks blew out whiter than the snow it ate.
Quacking shadows of birds broke over the untouched field.
A blond woman wearing a red coat - irrideschent red -
fell belly up into the snow.
She dragged her wide coat sleeves back and forth
until her snow trench became a valentine.
The woman pondered the sequence in French:
champs de neige, mangeant la neige,
les choux, les ailes d' oiseaux,
le manteau rouge,
les massacres au jour du Saint Valentin qui rougissaient
la neige.
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