Nathan Stewart-Jarrett
👤 Speaker
120
total appearances
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Petrified
A Biting Wind
into my lungs, into the blood vessels, the synapses, the cells, the soul, if you believe in that.
Petrified
A Biting Wind
I saw constellations changing and wheeling in the night sky as years zipped by.
Petrified
A Biting Wind
Trees spring from saplings to full height to desiccation.
Petrified
A Biting Wind
The earth thrumming with insects, animals living, dying, rotting.
Petrified
A Biting Wind
The lake fill up, swarm with fish, with the drowned.
Petrified
A Biting Wind
A thousand years of rain and snow and sun and wind pelting on my skin all at once.
Petrified
A Biting Wind
The Algonquin-speaking people had a name for this thing.
Petrified
A Biting Wind
Make it all easier to bear if it wasn't your fault.
Petrified
A Biting Wind
And we let Rabbit think he was drowning when we paddled ashore and he thundered down to us.
Petrified
A Biting Wind
When he saw us tug the naked body onto the ground.