The country's terms were harsh · windless as a sea in space . Day U7—Feb. 5— Wind and rain in...
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The country's terms were harsh
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1st rain of season:
—like infinity falling
—the complete package: sheen on deck of porch, can hear it falling all the way back to the flood,
—lull: the rain is akin the word’s spelling, soft and straight down (like l’s)
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the sea has washed down the land from forested green to cliff-gray
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OJB
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winter
the polished water, smoothed by rocks below.
C_ Aj LA
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fold of shoreline
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WINTER
Puget Sound area as a littoral
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The (scree, shore) slurred beneath
UJ'S
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watercourse upon watercourse
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breakup (geography)
UJ3
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Seattle a city of Pacific roulette
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life through the decades @ Cascopia
—-70* s, making love on every desk —80*s, —90*s, mutual funds/UOlK’s
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Seattleites know airplanes the way birders know ducks
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The Coast, the leading edge of the continent. It butted against
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seaplanes skiing down the sky (did I use this in earlier book?)
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plane notes for Hitch (based on our 6/15>/96 flight to Chicago ABA):
—Puget Sound like puzzle parts
—riffles (snow-white) of mountains to the horizon
—frozen lakes in the Cascades; like portholes? isinglass? manhole covers?
—unfrozen lakes a little farther east; Mitch reads elevation(s) of mtns by them
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possible detail of Mt. St* Helens eruption:
the ashstorm above the clouds, Mitch on airliner w/ music on the headset
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Mitch’s flight home: over the fire mtns...
—his close call @ Mt« St. ^elens, flying w/ Light hawk (day before eruption)
—his sense of the land having been hacked at
—he muses about his job, & the publisher *s habit of sending him to conferences
—big as he is, M in the plane seat is like St. Bernard in a windowbox (?)
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Seattle downtown under clouds: pewter skyline
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Uth of July fireworks setting off car alarms
—Sarah & Nile Norton reported this, watching Elliott Bay *96 firwks from Qn Anne Hill
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•flight attendant who gives gate numbers with quasi-military codenames s
”C9, Charlie 9.n
David (Isn*t the actual military codename here MDogw?)
Echo F
Fox
—younger attendant, Skyla's generation, would give them as.*. Bennie Courtney
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Keeping:
@ Green Lake (or elsewherbO# Mitch &/or Lexa while thinking about moving from
Seattle (or a job) hear a voice say, "Leave it*" (Dog-owner to big dog on a leash,
interested in another dog; "leave it" is the common command*.•)
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Keeping:
--crow (probably a young one) on railing @ Shilshole, teetering and flinching a bit as wa walked past, C*s elbow less than 3* from him, but not flying off5 maybe another evolutionary instant in crows fitting themselves into disturbed environment* Tony Angell likens it to the history of dogs, changing from hunting beasts to pets; says
crows are so smart, always working at the edges of a situation, that he wouldn’t be
surprised in 100 years to find them in some role humans find compatible and comfortable <
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windless as a sea in space
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Day U7—Feb. 5— Wind and rain in night and early morn. Some clearing, showers at noon; misty showers during afternoon.
Day I48—Feb. $—rain trotting in the drainpipe when we woke up; now (10 am) gray pause between rain, slight wind in trees.
These two days are the usual winter—rain aid U5 degrees—after the weeks of the cold clear winter. The winter of two winters.
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The mood less weather does not help. Customarily I take the view
Swan seemed to: count it a bonny day whenever thd^wmd" isn't ripping
the roof from the house* Just new T would wave away the gray equilibrium
overhead and invite commotion for commotion's sake. It could happen
yet, in the remaining space of the afternoon* No winter I have spent
in tte Pacific Northwest—this will make an even dozen—ever has been
as dairply bland and excitement less as the season's reputation.
("Oh, Seattle," anyone from elsewhere will begin, and one of the next
three words is "rain.") There can be winter weeks here
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WINTER
Does Swan ever curse the rain in his diaries?
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pewter weather of gray days and stormy water
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winter
call to Nat’1 Weather Service, Dec, 18, '78:
—winter arrives 9:21 p.m., Dec, 21 (is this 2121 hours?)
winter solstice
perihelion
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winter
"Rain five days and I love it," wrote Richard Hugo in Swan's town of Pt* T. (Chapbook, RAIN FIVE DAIS AND I LOVE IT, Shin 810.5U H89$Rai)
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✓ (rain) (trotting)
6-i])the murmur running in the drainpipe,
day again. (6:15)
winter
Day-long yesterday, night-long. Into the
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gently sombre day (of rain
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the discontent of our winter
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mum
Dec. 12: a rarely chilly season so far. Snow last month, and today a lingering frost on the streets, the day punctuated
with the panicked scrittccchhh of braking cars*
(kccarMnffch)
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WINTER
winter: an KziEri± entire season in shade
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winter
We are now into winter, the rain and I...
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CnaA.i fo^AjUi) the winter light of this house: more daylight in living and dining room
new—Jan, 5, etc,—than in summer, because of lowness of sun, circling
the end of the house from noon on.
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this winter that began with a salute of twenty-ones
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Gog-
If I noted the weather three times a day as Swan did, today it would read;
goose-drowner, gully-washer, fence-lifter.
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soft weather of this area