http://slow.writerscafe.org/JimC-D The original writings of author The Language of Birds en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1776022449 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 PROLOGUEWitness a man, a 19th century trapper, violently shivering in a snow cave with his dog. The dog has shared her heat with the man, has positioned herself between the man and the cave opening, protecting the man from the elements, because she is a good dog.But now, just now she is de.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/JimC-D/306425/          There is loss in translation, and at the heart of it, a wet and pulsing world.       Fort Wrangel Alaska, Spring 1877: A fragmented transcription of an impromptu Tlingit song:&l.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/JimC-D/306421/ An imagined internal narrative of a young biracial teen in Alaska who served as interpreter to the Tlinget tribes for John Muir and S. Hall Young in the summer of 1880. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/JimC-D/306416/