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  • Weather Report
  • Earl Coleman (bio)

Nor'easters, like politicos, paint all things white, the fence-posts, roofs; the birches silver; world deceptively like Currier and Ives; while in the hidden lee of hills they muster forces for their coup, preceded by the shutting down of access, superhighways cut, advancing on their main objective—domination of the Jet Stream; shrouded, sudden, brutal, swift, bringing all communicating traffic to its knees, so that the driving snow and windy convoys can go through. Yet in the offing there is Spring. Our frozen landscape doesn't hint at that. Instead our postered walls bear propaganda, continuing rain and sleet. The wintry blast, its hoary rhetoric, drowns out all other notes. But glories of the snow poke through the solid crust, and thaws, when they arrive, can liquefy. Reactionary weather can't withstand a warming trend, which makes short work of floes. The roar of winter sounds its worst in that split-second.

Earl Coleman

Earl Coleman has published poetry and prose in a number of periodicals, including Esquire, Pacific Review, Writers Review, Nimrod, Atlanta Review, Hawaii Review, and Callaloo. His first collection of poems, A Stubborn Pine in a Stiff Wind, was published in 2001.

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