Bio

Nathalie Boisard-Beudin is a middle aged French woman living in Rome, Italy. She has more hobbies than spare time, alas - reading, cooking, writing, painting and photography - so hopes that her technical colleagues at the European Space Agency will soon come up with a solution to that problem by stretching the fabric of time. Either that or send her up to write about the travels and trials of the International Space Station, the way this was done for the exploratory missions of old. Clearly, the woman is a dreamer.

All
Here
Is dead
White so white
Dazzled by ravens
Lost in the scrawny arms of trees
Heavy with snow and mistletoe
Pregnant with cold age
Made colder
Yet by
Their
Cries

A symphony for cracking eaves.

Fog
Wave
Crows chime
Chattering
Smothered by midday
Eyes long eaten away by frost
By a voracious blaze at last
Fever trapped in snow
Blood berries
Locked in
Ice
Peace

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