May 16, 2025
More in Beside the Point Building a (snow) man
she asks, "snow, or no snow?" I beg, in every man, a carrot and bold unburnt coal - do we wait cold for the impetus to be whole? we (or else) in other men, a stick un-wielded reveals each blow (inch by inch) then (yielded) under plough as yet unfielded Answers come as children roll the chill up ball by ball into the question
or is that snow unmoved by joy of boyhood plans? in every word, a snowflake waits, too warm? too cold? too small? too great? Every man (and others too) asks the question, "What is true?
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