On New Year’s Day

Abstract

On a gray plain of frigid waste clings a twisted bush stung by tiny shards of sterile ice Bitter wind ravages the land with chaotic gusts that winnow and winnow the snow carving the ribs of a slouching carcass It blows the ice crystals high and Oh! a sun-dog in the hazy sky — hot yellow wrapped in the parentheses of dual rainbows... 30 Sketch tained by faithful worship of and service to the god Oeconomos. To these people, a fish was a fish, whether pulled from Stream or Can. For they held it a Principle that only the most base aspects of the world were of any importance in the lives of men, or, for that matter, were the only aspects which held any semblance of Reality at all. FOOTNOTES 1. Paul and Anne Ehrlich, Population/Resources/Environment, 2nd. ed., W. H. Freeman and Company (San Francisco, 1972), p . 104. 2. Michael Allaby, "Miracle Rice and Miracle Tourists," The Ecologist, Vol. 3, No. 5 (May 1973), p . 181. 3. Helena Curtis, Biology, 2nd. ed., Worth Publishers, Inc. (New York, 1975), p . 975. New Year's Day by Mark Osing English 3 On a gray plain of frigid waste clings a twisted bush stung by tiny shards of sterile ice Bitter wind ravages the land with chaotic gusts that winnow and winnow the snow carving the ribs of a slouching carcass It blows the ice crystals high and Oh! a sun-dog in the hazy sky — hot yellow wrapped in the parentheses of dual rainbows