<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span style="font-size: 27px; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Snowbanks North of the House</span><br><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding-left: 14px; padding-top: 20px;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding-left: 14px; padding-top: 20px;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;">Those great sweeps of snow that stop suddenly six<br>feet from the house ...<br>Thoughts that go so far.<br>The boy gets out of high school and reads no more<br>books;<br>the son stops calling home.<br>The mother puts down her rolling pin and makes no<br>more bread.<br>And the wife looks at her husband one night at a<br>party, and loves him no more.<br>The energy leaves the wine, and the minister falls<br>leaving the church.<br>It will not come closer<br>the one inside moves back, and the hands touch<br>nothing, and are safe.<br><br>The father grieves for his son, and will not leave the<br>room where the coffin stands.<br>He turns away from his wife, and she sleeps alone.<br><br>And the sea lifts and falls all night, the moon goes on<br>through the unattached heavens alone.<br><br>The toe of the shoe pivots<br>in the dust ...<br>And the man in the black coat turns, and goes back<br>down the hill.<br>No one knows why he came, or why he turned away,<br>and did not climb the hill.</span></font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding-left: 14px; padding-top: 20px;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"><br></span></font></div><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"> - Robert Bly<br></span></font><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"><br></span></font></div><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;">"Be joyful though you have considered all the facts."</span></font><div><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 27px;"> - Wendell Berry</span></font></div></div></div></body></html>