Change of Seasons
Raine's "How Snow Falls"
Suzie Lechtenberg
JANUARY 12, 2008Full Episode Audio
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HOW SNOW FALLS
by Craig Raine
Like the unshaven prickle
of a sharpened razor,
this new coldness in the air,
the pang
of something intangible.
Filling our eyes,
the sinusitis of perfume
without the perfume.
And then love's vertigo,
love's exactitude,
this snow, this transfiguration
we never quite get over.
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