Just another confused dwarf …

A January morning in Ottawa …

Ostensibly, I’m a happy dwarf

          living in a music box

 - playing The Golden Dreams

                                       over and over -

flourished with xylography of

                             snow crystals …

But actually it’s a -40 morning …

I’m in an OCTranspo shelter

          left home for work

          remembering my broken ideals

                                       here and there

          the glass walls are covered

                                       with frozen air

nothing is seeable

let alone foreseeable …

                    

- Ali Fatolahi, Jan-15-2012, Ottawa