Whitehorse & frozen dreams: revisiting the Arctic of his youth, a Canadian writer finds his way home.(Transport)

From: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbiannewsmagazine) | Date: October 26, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

I grew up in Canada's Arctic area but haven't been up there since I left, by myself, at age 17. But I do return there in dreams, where I wander the streets of Yellowknife, the capital of the Northwest Territories, the snow along the curb as high as my heat, deep in the darkness that lasts from November, when the sun sets, until April, when it rises again, the streetlights haloed in the perpetual ice fog of a 50-below day. In this dream I can't get out, can't find the airport. It is basically my adolescence. But even in nightmares there isn't Frozen Turkey Bowling.

I am on my ...

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