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Sunday, February 20, 2011

The Long Winter


December: The snow wraps around the bars of the courtyard gate like hands grasping at your ankles.
January: In the orange midnight dawn, the streetlights are glowing discs floating in the fog.
February: Bobcats and dumptrucks spirit the snow away in the dead of night, turn the city into an Arctic wasteland.
March: New flour coats the black glaciers; the banks of the mall, battered into crystals by rain shrapnel, look like coral reefs covered in dirt or sand, piled over brick walls and benches like a tumor of barnacles.
April: Pink tree petals fill the sidewalk cracks like streams of blood.