In a bitterly cold wind, children's play ground is deserted (the stone turtle and frog are left alone to themselves); there are no butterflies or hummingbirds in the butterfly and hummingbird garden; only a couple of swans, wings blown to the full, look like small sailboats parked on a violent water while a thin water freezes itself on a bridge (freeze protects, too, just as fever or madness does); and the first winter snow, like salt, falling on a wounded landscape (from ecological burns), feels more painful.

I want a miracle. I set out to look for mink along a creek - I haven't seen a mink yet in Ann Arbor. People say it's more likely to find them on cloudy days.

 

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