Today the roads are slippery

Especially on the crests of hills

Where iced-over sand, glittery

Creates an unsure footing and instills



A sense of insecurity about the ground

For movement underfoot is unsound ...

So we must tread carefully at those spots

Or we will fall, doing quite a flip-flop ...



- Tristram



© Christopher W. Thomas

8:03am Sat. Jan. 9th, 1999