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light snow at 32 degrees
at 34, snow-rain that then freezes
to ice what has already fallen onto
our hill, a paved logging road
with impossible slopes even 4-wheel
drive and chains find challenging
so i’ve been writing and reading
wrapped up in fluffed blankets
huddled in my home living on
canned goods and fruit stocked
up a week ago at meteorologists’
warnings of severe winter storms
a new, limited lifestyle that calls
from within me a rare perspective
of proper humility in the grip
of Nature as she wills
stay at home
gentle chill inside
outside arctic cold, icy rain crusting snow adding glittering brilliance
but also added incentive to remain
indoors