in a place of snow and arias a hunt for furry and feathery thoughts goes on and a command for an oven with full seething pots is given while winter keeps the watch and the thirst for blood seeps through the forests driving wolves and hounds to fury to blood, to torn flesh, to howls of victory or death and the reward taken raw or broiled death taken lightly, life murderously enjoyed with iron teeth the pots are filled, without a doubt the arias keep soaring and the guests of honor revel in the accidental aftermath socrates, that ugly socrates buried under the cherry-colored snow artfully painted by the hunting game with red of deer blood and yellow of hound’s pee worry that will never be like a poor cardinal bird forever framed into people’s christmas cards of which scheme it cares nothing about warmth that will flee winter is a fake comforter and a fake artist we coldly wait for for for and then,...