my culture is a blizzard, low

visibility everything,

everywhere
it is thick sheets of ice to slip on

hard enough to break

bone 		
cold snow to cause loss

of feeling in far digits and many

places
fun to make angels      and skate!
my culture is a swift blanket

over stone and foliage

a princely cape lain over soft ground
for safe passage

            of young ladies

                        in old stories
my culture is a long, hot second.

ungiving ungenerous unstudied

by anthropologists	
my culture does well

at recreation      most of the time it takes

first prize
my culture is the tallest wall

it holds everything in

it doesn’t sound very good

does it
it doesn’t feel very good
it doesn’t feel very much

like anything