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Economy of Winter 2
- University Press of Colorado
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1 Economy of Winter 2 They might have been olives or grapes or opulent rows of each, spilling over the penciled border beneath four or five cerulean strokes; cumulus loosened from the sea-dark sky, suffocated where the paper is wavy from where you must have paused to imagine the burdens of composing within which a drought is composed; some need within the image itself; as the tree from which the paper was fashioned required water, as did the fields from which the family was fed— though never enough—when the sun was low over the house divided by the single telephone pole, its endless distance from these dying fields. Some might say it is the image of a house. But the house is the image of the tragedies within it. ...