Literary Advent Calendar, Day 9, December 9 2015

Skating in Harlem, Christmas Day

Cynthia Zarin

To Mary Jo Salter

Beyond the ice-bound stones and bucking trees, 
past bewildered Mary, the Meer in snow, 
two skating rinks and two black crooked paths

are a battered pair of reading glasses 
scratched by the skater’s multiplying math. 
Beset, I play this game of tic-tac-toe.

Divide, subtract. Who can tell if love surpasses? 
Two naughts we’ve learned make one astonished 0— 
a hectic night of goats and compasses.

Folly tells the truth by what it’s not— 
one X equals a fall I’d not forgo. 
Are ice and fire the integers we’ve got?

Skating backwards tells another story— 
the risky star above the freezing town, 
a way to walk on water and not drown.

Milton NH Police Department Search for Missing Woman.

 

 

 

The Milton Police Department is asking the public’s help in locating a missing person.

The Milton Police Department is attempting to locate Ann Wade of Milton, New Hampshire.

Ann was last seen on Tuesday, December 7, 2015 at 5:40 pm in the parking lot of the Dollar General Store on White Mountain Highway.

The Milton Police Department and Ann’s family are worried that Ann may harm herself and are asking for the public’s help in locating Ann.

Ann is a 39 year old, white female. She is 5’6”, 140 lbs with green eyes and brown hair.

Ann was last seen on foot in this area.

The Milton Police Department with the assistance of the Rochester Police Department, New Hampshire Fish and Game, Milton Fire and EMS and the Lebanon, Maine Fire and EMS conducted a search of the area near White Mountain Highway and the Lebanon, ME boarder.

The search was called for the evening and will continue in the morning.

Anyone with information on Ann’s location is asked to call 603-652-4500. Anyone who may have seen Ann on Tuesday is also asked to call the Milton Police Department.