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we roar along the rust belts——the great red spot——
the polar vortex——the caress of solar flares——
ruffle the molten methane and ammonia oceans of me——
the storm-riven non-surface of me and mine——
that which you call skin——
a threadbare term to describe where I stop and others begin——
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Yann Rousselot (Dawn of the Algorithm)
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Please tell me that this place has air conditioning that works.” “Yeah, well,” he began. “It does, but there are only two settings: suffocating or polar vortex. We alternate. You’ll
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Wendy Potocki (Trillingham)
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Is this how I will forever live my life, owing explanations and apologies? When did this manner of making my way through the world start?
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Shani Mootoo (Polar Vortex)
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I picked one up in demonstration and bit into it, tasted oozy salted egg beyond the soft dough. My daughter crinkled her nose. A fussy eater. Like her mother. It was a constant battle to get her to eat, as opposed to me, where the battle went the opposite way.
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Matthew Mather (Polar Vortex: A Novel)
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Atmospheric scientists call these flow patterns “Rossby waves,” and they were the cause of the dreaded “polar vortex” that brought record-cold air to inhabitants on the East Coast in the winter of 2014.59
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Adam Frank (Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth)
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All of humankind was one big family, come to think of it. At war with each other one minute, then happy together the next.
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Matthew Mather (Polar Vortex: A Novel)
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Don’t start blaming yourself, it’s a way of giving up, of giving in.
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Matthew Mather (Polar Vortex: A Novel)