It's been snowing
for almost two weeks now.
The ice, like concrete,
makes it hard to know where
the sidewalk ends,
makes it hard to move,
so today I slept in.

My windows are frozen.
My tires are locked
to the ground by
ice and the plough,
it's hard to move,
so today I slept in.

I am a New Englander.
Self-sufficient, and 
trained to the storm.

But I'm blind to the spring,
frozen, indurate, beyond
the point of melting.
Hard earth is starting
to look good to me now.
So today I practiced
for life without spring,
because the ice is so hard,
today I slept in.

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