Friday, August 17, 2007

Dwarf Birches Comments

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We are dwarf birches.
We sit firmly, like splinters,
under the nails of frosts
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Bri Edwards 18 January 2013

another pleasant to read poem. i was, until the end, thinking the nails of frosts was some reference to figurative fingernails or toenails. splinters can get pushed under THOSE nails. ouch! but then it dawned on me that they are figurative carpenter's nails...........correct? that makes more sense to me.

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Zima Junction, Siberia
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