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Night on Shakey Lakes, -17°F

January 28, 2018

Tonight we sleep above the ice, (cocooned like mousies in sleeping bags) under an impossible number of January stars, (brilliant like only winter stars can be, Orion hunting alone) over the lake, and the fish in the lake, (swimming slowly in the iced water capped by sixteen inches of ice) in this bitter cold, (as … More Night on Shakey Lakes, -17°F

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman, goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.  –

WB Yeats

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