Sylvia Plath wrote 'Wind warns November’s done with. The blown leaves make bat-shapes, Web-winged and furious'. But she was born in Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood. Coincidentally, her father, Otto, was from Grabow (in Germany) and wrote about bumblebees.
One of the left tributaries of the River Dnieper is the Psyol which flows through Russia and Ukraine. About this time of year (November) it starts to freeze. If you check around here you will come across hares, foxes, deer , wild boar and beavers. The river flows through the city of Sumy which, during the revolution of 1905, became famous throughout Russia for in effect having established an independent peasant republic.
Alliances come and go, but the River Dnieper (mentioned by Herodotus in the 5th century BC) flows on and goes on - forever (or at least since the 5th century BC).
Having been persuaded (by a sharp salesman) into buying her DNA profile, Magritude Feather has traced her roots back to a tiny village between Kiev and Smila. This is puzzling since (although she was born in Wyoming) her father was Irish, and her mother a Sephardi Catalan.
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