Dovina10 Nov 2004
You've not gone far wrong. The dark substances (limbs and earth) are the pains each of us carries. The snow covers the limbs and the ground (his jokes, my missives) The dust is the pain showing through, at least partially. I wondered who showed more pain and was closer to the ground and who hid it with white crusty snow. It may be a stretch, but at the time, it seemed a perfectly suitable metaphor.