The storm is a glazier. Then fog passes through, touches th… - Alexander Chee

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The storm is a glazier. Then fog passes through, touches the cold trees to add to the ice already there. Here the wind spins glass from the water it has stolen off the sea and the lakes, off the hair on my head and the breath out of my mouth, the storm takes the water from us all everywhere, to make of a mountain range a stained-glass depiction of a saint no one knows.

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Alexander Chee (born August 21, 1967) is an American fiction writer, poet, journalist and reviewer.

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