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The Cult of David Thompson
by gregory betts
$4

Jan 6

the snow is

this snow, that snow

very snow, big snow

snowy snow

[someone says, hard pack, ice-crust
angel light
duster ice, man killing, the drift,
swallowing one big evanescence...]

where here there is pure white, but what will the snow know there
beyond C, when my colour falters, lies, will there will be pure white
when i make C, what of the water's song?

but
the snow will always remember those songs
will haunt us with memory

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gregory betts is the author of If Language (BookThug, 2005). A resident of
Hamilton, Ontario, he appeared in the four poet chapbook Read York
(Apostrophe Press, 2004), and has edited collections for Exile Editions. We
don't know why he lives in Hamilton. It's not like he's from there.

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