CHEZ NOUS
As we frenetically approach the end of the week, taking care of loose ends until our publishing life continues in the New Year, thoughts of holidays compete with the quotidian challenges of winter. Montrealers reacted smugly to the news of terrible snow and ice storms sweeping across America’s Mid-West. We shrugged our shoulders as it crossed the 49th Parallel on its way to Toronto. And then this much anticipated storm hit Montreal with a ponderous thud, burying cars, reducing main thoroughfares to wagon trails. About 100cm of snow has fallen on this city over the last two weeks, breaking decades-old records. And it’s not officially winter yet! We love it.
Have a happy and healthy holiday.
CATS IN THE SNOW
They’re very distrustful
of that white element—
prefer to stand in one place
almost sitting on their belly,
or watch the next one walk
(see if he sinks).
Snow to them
is a treacherous
fluid world
in which even a cat’s sensitivity fails.
[From Zembla’s Rocks by Louis Dudek, Véhicule Press 1986.]
