Arctic winds return. Jack London stuff.
February has been a total write-off this year.
The February of Our Discontent.
Nordicity (after Glenn Gould’s “The Idea of North”)
High latitude
vast flatness of poles
wind a whitewash
breathing lungs
stone-cold
Cold enlarges consciousness
an inner seeing: hinterlands
We are stirred and sharpened
made concise, altered–
a mental nordicity
Arctic night
blizzard bone
drift of pelt and parka
Polar values
break the ice in rime
evoke an introversion
like isotherms
Permafrost/permavision
cold Judas chill
solitude and
idea-flakes
Blue-planed spirit
frozen subsoil
keen surface
cutting/nipping
uninhabited
vanishing point
Brush, blade, pointillism
breath and breathe
vision elemental
inland seas
frozen sonata
Ice-age cold snap
cold storage
icefields
pro-found snow-bound
Pack-ice growlers
undertow design
spirit gathers hoarfrost
terminal moraine
Chilblain shiver
raw polar night
boreal abstract
a treeline sensibility
gather and evoke
this nordic index
–RD