Winter Remembered

Photos by John Cyr

"Winds of Delphic Kansas"
by Kate Stephens

"O, the snow-footed, ice-armored winds of the prairie,
Rushing out mightily

From cosmic caves of the north,
From glacier forces of earth and air,

The winter winds of the prairie!
They drive dark clouds from morn to morn,

They shake the light o'er stubbles of corn,
They whistle through woods of leaves all shorn,

With never a hint of the spring to be born,
The flesh-freezing winds of the prairie!"

Winds of Delphic Kansas

Kate Stephens
1853-1938
(Woodstock, N.Y.: The Maverick Press. 1911)