poem- changing air

poem- changing air November 18, 2016

Filed under: Poetry — Shawn L. Bird @ 1:25 pm
Tags: change, cold, micropoetry, poem, poetry, winter

The air bites.

Our breath smokes

Winter’s long wait is over.

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10 Responses to “poem- changing air”

Fiza Says:
November 18, 2016 at 5:41 pm
Not on this end, not yet at least.

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- Shawn L. Bird Says:
  November 18, 2016 at 11:21 pm
  A sure sign of the season- The TransCanada Highway between work and home was closed today. Luckily there’s an alternate route though it’s twice as long. (40 mins instead of 20- many people could only dream of such a short commute).
  
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  - prior.. Says:
    November 18, 2016 at 11:42 pm
    Just watched an episode of “highway thru hell” covering the snowy rescues on the Coquihalla Highway…..
    Whew
    Lots of snow!
    ❄️❄️❄️💨
  - Shawn L. Bird Says:
    November 19, 2016 at 1:49 pm
    Oh yeah. We know a few people who’ve gotten into winter accidents on the Coq. It’s scary at times. We don’t often go that direction in winter, though. The stretch of TCH between Salmon Arm and Revelstoke is also really bad for winter accidents, and my route home from work in Sicamous is routinely closed 3 or 4 times each winter, usually because a semi was going too fast and ends up in the ditch and across the highway. The first closure for this school year was yesterday, which is early.
  - prior.. Says:
    November 19, 2016 at 2:04 pm
    Wow – part of living in that awesome great white North!!
    ❄️❤️️
  - Shawn L. Bird Says:
    November 20, 2016 at 10:32 pm
    Yup.
righteousbruin9 Says:
November 18, 2016 at 8:41 pm
The Polar Vortex is rearing to go.

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- Shawn L. Bird Says:
  November 18, 2016 at 11:19 pm
  Indeed.
  
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magicpoet01 Says:
November 20, 2016 at 11:38 pm
Lucky you! So wish I still lived in the hemisphere with Winter coming. We are already in the upper 30 degrees C – hate hot, humid weather!

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- Shawn L. Bird Says:
  November 21, 2016 at 9:36 am
  That’s July here. We get 4 very distinctive seasons, but despite snow, we rarely hit -20C in a winter, unlike Northern BC where we’d hit -40C…
  
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