2022-2023 Winter Break Writing Challenge Featured Author: Anonymous, "Nix"

"Nix", by Anonymous

A great deal of Latin language poetry is anonymous, and this author chooses to continue the tradition by remaining nameless. They are a graduate of Boise State University and usually write science fiction and biotech fiction. "Nix" was a fun escape.

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"Nix"

Dicebant “Ninget!”
sed “Ningat” audiebam.
Heu, septem horam laboravi
fodiens usque ad fundamenta viae.
Etiam nunc… ningit.


“Snow”

They kept saying “It will snow!”
but I kept hearing “It may snow.”
Oi, for seven hours I have laboured
digging all the way to the foundations of the road.
And even now… it snows.

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