All of a sudden - it became a really busy road

As cars came bustling by, and lights showed

Great rifts in the paving caused by extremes

Of temperatures from ice cold to warm steam



Arising from a road normally white at this time

Covered with mountains of snow which'd climbed

Up upon the edges into banks by the snow plows

In times past when mid-winter temperatures below



Freezing at this January-February point in the year

Chilled us to the very bone and brought on tears

As icicles formed under nose and at eye corners

And now ... we have only rain and nothing more



- Tristram



Christopher W. Thomas

5:55pm Friday Jan. 30, 98