Poetry. "When I stooped to scrible this down/ squinting in the last light, my glasses all salt-specked,/ I noticed on my arm, no kidding, a winged ant/ struggling with the wind"--Steve Shavel. Clumsy acrobats tumbling through the circuses of philosophy, architecture, politics, religion and just about anything else you can think of, Steve Shavel's wild meditations drift and whirl with spastic brilliance among language's most earnest and playful coincidences Steve Shavel lives in Northampton, Massachusetts. HOW SMALL BRIDES SURVIVE IN EXTREME COLD is his first book.