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70 Ice Golf on the Arctic Circle 1. a canoe frozen outside the window 2. angled light shedding battered blacktop 3. old hunting spears from times past 4. if your footfalls are soft, the old one will not shoot you for the fun of it 5. a thousand boxes of frozen honey 6. Raven squatting in an empty house 7. wait for the water to freeze solid before you bring out last year’s golf clubs 8. paint the golf balls red else they’re swallowed in a sea of snow 9. Dr. Suess’ snowmachine still beside weathered boards of Mamie Reich’s house 10. signs that tell yield, stop, or go while dogs yelp at the stars 11. old tent tarps flapping in arctic winds 12. at night even the wind seems lonely 13. teaching class over the two-way radio and all the students are attentive 14. the water in stillness breaks nature’s sigh 15. ice reaching as far as the eye can see 16. how quickly the world disappears in the far cold reaches until spring 17. the old ones said this would last forever now forever seems not so far 18. getting a hole-in-one if the wind allows 19. when the ice road opens we go with our car 20.dogs pant to the crunch of packed snow 21. morning sky shimmers purple and pink 22. there is so much sky you can lose a golf ball even painted red in mid-flight 23. your breath hangs waiting ...

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