Winter winds are biting,
Etching the woods in shadows.
The paw prints of hunting dogs
Are black stars in the snow…
—Sheena Blackhall, “A Brueghel Winter”
🖼️ Pieter Bruegel the Elder, “Hunters in the Snow”, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-brueghel-winter/
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Learn from this picture how we journey in this world
Slithering as we go, the foolish and the wise…
—John Burnside, “Pieter Brueghel: Winter Landscape with Skaters and a Bird Trap, 1565”
from BLACK CAT BONE (Jonathan Cape, 2011)
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/412331/black-cat-bone-by-john-burnside/9780224093859
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