Red-tinged snow
No, not blood-stained, but a kind of lichen bringing the red of Snow White’s ruby mouth to the snow.
Source:...
Dish-shaped paws
Lopez writes of the animals he encounters in the Arctic with great respect and sensitivity, quietly questioning the distances of...
Fallen pieces of the moon
A haunting way to think of icebergs, moon-pieces fallen from the sky. Especially when lit at night by their mother-ship's...
Nuannaarpoq
Can a word change a life? This Eskimo word changed mine and made me curious about a people who could...
Deep-keeled ice
An arresting image of ice grounding like a boat’s hull scraping a shallow sea-floor.
‘… the sound of deep-keeled ice...
Jade-green vegetation
An image of verdancy that doesn’t quite chime with our impressions of endless Arctic white and blue.
Source: Barry Lopez,...
Frost-riven rubble
Rubble bespeaks a building site in a busy, messy, or war-torn city. The idea of its being splintered by frost...
The slope of time
The more I connect with the past, the more I connect with the present, and I liked this use of...
Ice-crushed
In this description of a 250 ton ship being crushed by the unforgiving shift and grind of pack ice, you...
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