Wednesday, January 19, 2011

the morning after

the sun is back today. the air is snappy and sharp and everything glistens and crepitates with the sound of cracking ice. 

it proves surprisingly easy to liberate my car from its chamber of ice. unlike snow which splats onto the windshield and then sticks on for dear life, with nascently melting ice you just chip the huge encasing sheets into smaller sheets and heave them off. the difficult part, it turns out, is getting the car to climb the ascending slopes on tires that have forgotten how to grip.

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