Our Year
Still, there is hope this fading year
that next year will be our year
for a winter hike to the island quarry.
After the holidays, I'd propose.
In January, when dormant hardwoods
clatter in the wind and only a stray spruce
or cardinal lives for color. At such times
the quarry sleeps...
Fiona Macrae
Daily Mail
Thursday, December 30, 2010
If you thought last week was as cold as you could bear it, brace yourself. Forecasters say the worst is yet to come, and this winter could be the harshest since the Thames froze over more than three centuries ago.
Temperatures for...
Tracey Boles and Lucy Johnston
UK Daily Express
Dec 6, 2010
MIDDLE class families are among millions of Britons who cannot afford to heat their homes this winter, as elderly ride on buses all day to stay in the warm.
After a week of snow and freezing temperatures a shocking picture has...
Winter Trees Cough Like Old Men
Winter trees cough like old men
about death's white nightmares
while the rain talks in Latin.
They cough about the sobbing tragic
ash, they bind valises for leaving,
they darken—and in the chill
of frost from the sun, the lungs
bristle to see coffins hidden
in...
Forget Rednecks, Here is what Jeff Foxworthy has to say about Canucks.
If
your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May,
You may live in Canada.
If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don't work
there, You may live in Canada.
If you've worn shorts and a...