fromThe New Yorker
21 hours ago"Black Snow"
falling in Austria and the Himalayas,deliquescing into the dirt of Russia, unloading its burden of soot and dustfrom the coal plants, the coalfields and pits of Prokopyevsk, Kiselevsk, Leninsk-Kuznetski,their soldiers deliquescing into the local cemetery, returned from Afghanistan, Chechnya, Ukraine- blacksnow, the words sound so pretty, like black apples from Arkansas, or the Black Diamond apple of Tibet,stained purple by sunlight, expensive and rare,
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