#open fire

I dunno….

Fuckin’……

Chestnuts roasting on an-

OPEN FIRE!!!

*this was the best gif version of that scene I could find*

Four modern poets have written in response to Pieter Brueghel’s 1565 painting, “Hunters in the Snow.” Of the four: John Berryman, William Carlos Williams, Walter de la Mare and John Langland, the piece by Berryman (1914-1972; Pulitzer Prize 1965) is the most descriptively interesting ...

Pieter Brueghel the Elder: Hunters in the Snow, 1565, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

The three men coming down the winter hill In brown, with tall poles and a pack of hounds At heel, through the arrangement of the trees, Past the five figures at the burning straw, Returning cold and silent to their town,

Returning to the drifted snow, the rink Lively with children, to the older men, The long companions they can never reach, The blue light, men with ladders, by the church The sledge and shadow in the twilit street,

Are not aware that in the sandy time To come, the evil waste of history Outstretched, they will be seen upon the brow Of that same hill: when all their company Will have been irrecoverably lost,

These men, this particular three in brown Witnessed by birds will keep the scene and say By their configuration with the trees, The small bridge, the red houses and the fire, What place, what time, what morning occasion