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The tundra breathes in

Twisting the terrain for pernicious gain

Souring the soils for seasons to come

As it exhales…

imperiled by madness carried on the winds

Like the harshness of snow mounting at our door

Some cryptic otherness heeds the dole of death and destruction

Perverse is this expanse

And it was that the settlers aimed to harness the black river

But the land itself subdued the people…

subornation of many to ruinous fate

Starvation

Melancholy

Murder

And Suicide