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Weather

Cara Losier Chanoine

Today is seventeen different shades of grey
and I sit, forehead pressed against the clammy windowpane,
waiting for the pregnant clouds
to drop their ilk.

The students cross the campus
dressed in gym shorts and sandals,
defying January’s limp attempt
at winter.
There has been so little snow
that I can almost forget that this
is New England.

In October, on my wedding day,
it snowed so hard that the power was out
for a week.
Afterward, people told us stories
about loved ones who’d married
in hurricanes and tornadoes.
They told us it was lucky
to be married in bad weather,
and we’d scoffed at the idea.

When a dry spell evolved into a drought
that chased the tail of autumn
all the way through February,
I began to wonder if, perhaps,
the universe had conspired
on our behalf, after all.

Today, with my forehead printing smudges
against a windowpane of a university building
in New Hampshire,
I recognize that our lives are not free of struggle.
There are times when we are broke
and angry
and sick,
but later, when the periwinkle glow
from the television slips
between my eyelids,
I wake to find my husband’s hands
clasped tight across my stomach,
anchoring me to his chest like a lifejacket.

When I wake up this way,
I can believe that two days before Halloween,
on our wedding day,
all the luck of the year
was bound into an October snowstorm
that just happened to fall on us.

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