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snowball war

Snowball War. 
Three flakes of snow fell on the village, there might
have been a few more, but those I saw landed on 
the roof of the car  and I saw them melt to droplets 
of clear water. On each droplets a tiny rainbow and
my mother´s face when I called and asked for her to 
throw down a sandwich with marge and sugar on. 
She did, often- I´m not a football keeper- it landed in 
the snow which was more than tiny flakes; so what!
Bread and sugar, I was hungry and fighting against 
children who had invading our street. And when my 
hands were frozen I came up warmed them by the stow  
and remember how it hurts to get the circulation back
 into my hands.


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  1. Date: 12/5/2012 7:33:00 AM

    Dear Jan each time I read this, Jan, I find another phrase to warm my psyche. It makes me think of Dylan Thomas' images in "a Child's Christmas in Wales" love, Kathy P.S. the frozen hands brought me back.

    hansen Avatar jan oskar hansen Date: 12/5/2012 3:48:00 PM Block poet from commenting on your poetry

    thank you kathy, Dylan was famous because he as university educated and live in a literary invironmentbut I don~t mind I´m happy as long as you and other read my poems