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Sally Ito is a witer and translator. She was born in Taber, Alberta, and currently lives in Winnipeg. She has published four books of poetry, Frogs in the Rain Barrel, A Season of Mercy, Alert to Glory, and Heart’s Hydrography as well as a collection of short stories called Floating Shore. In 2018, she published a cultural memoir, The Emperor's Orphans. Ito has also translated and published the Japanese children's poet Misuzu Kaneko by drawing on her years of study in Japan and experience of translating contemporary Japanese poetry. She teaches creative writing in Winnipeg and is a former blog contributor to the multicultural children's literature blog and website, PaperTigers.
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Portrait of Snow Country
Brown house-shacks cluster together as flakes float and settle upon their wooden roofs; silence in this valley slowly creeps in and moves. Winter has finally arrived. Snow, cold weather. Black trains pull in, bleating faraway calls, their billowed smoke fading into the white air as more passengers arrive to this ‘somewhere’ interior built of nature’s shale and limestone walls. A mountain sketch reveals white sentinel peaks looming over an old man and his young son, squatting on their porch, looking into the darkened horizon; faces flat and dull, colour faded from their cheeks. A photograph taken, words later scribbled in the corner, ‘Father and I on the porch, Winter of ’42, New Denver.’
From Frogs in The Rain Barrel, 1995, Nightwood Editions
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These texts are published with the kind authorization of the author.
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