The Winter
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The snow comprises everythingand everybody here. Insideeverything is gathered, tools toget through and over it: shovels,skis, sticks, kicksleds, skates,sleighs stand against thefaçades. In the snow are all theyears that have preceeded.When it falls, it falls anew. Onesingle snowflake carries theweight of a life. Against yourhand it immortalizes itself; itspeaks in its own dissolvement.The snow holds entire lives,household goods, plates, tincans, furniture, pictures thatspeak about who we are, wewho live here. [End Page 203]
Lena Bezawork Grönlund, a former freelancer, was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, but grew up in the north of Sweden. She has worked in the library and in the information science field. She is currently pursuing her MFA in creative writing at the University of Oregon in Eugene.
