Original poem reprinted online here: "A Little Shiver" by Barton Sutter Originally read: January 27, 2013 More information about the Poet: Barton Sutter When reading this poem again, I thought to myself that this was something I would see in a Norman Rockwell painting -- something so light-hearted and domestic that I have a hard time being cynical about the poem. The poem starts out with the "bad tidings" being snow. And here's the aftermath of such an event: 1) Children abandoned their homework (then a light-hearted jab at hypotenuse). 2) Snowplow driver getting ready for work. 3) An couple resolves their "barking at each other" and decide to "go to bed" 4) Dog, in the snow, puts tail over snow. Surely, there are things missing in the poem (if I look at this as a narrative) more centered around the couple who "barked at each other"; however, I fill in the blanks with connotation. Something as innocuous as quilts diffuses my cyni...
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