This website very out of date, and I thought it was inaccessible until I found that Tina still had it on the NDA website. Maybe I'll update it if I have time this summer 2006. A thought about winter...

The Blizzard


The blinding blizzard forbids me to retrieve
my forgotten purse at home,
so I eat stale pretzels at my desk for lunch and
dream of living in the desert next winter.

Settling into the driver's seat at 5:10,
I marvel at the Winter Wonderland that Worcester has become.
Then I bravely pull out and creep around the bend --
a hypervigilant pilot without a license. 

Young families have been lured into the night
by the Currier and Ives portrait that nature has painted.
I swear at them as I swerve back and forth across the road.
I want no pedestrian sainted. 

A monstrous ton of steel passes me on the right and 
I'm challenged by several brutish four-wheel drives,
but I manuever slowly, purposefully and expertly.
I arrive home safely.

My front tires spin in snow piled there during the day
by city plows. Then more snow avalanches onto the roof of my car.

I get out to shovel and I am angry about the snowflakes falling
on my hatless head.

City Hall would hear about this.



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