Winter has come. It dusted in under a full moon, lighting the night world aglow. It’s the time of peppermint tea, warm radiators, cold winds on immobile white waves that lap at the narrow tracks made by fragile man across the great wilderness.
This is a land that could eat you alive. And I know it, and I love it for its ferocity. I’ve nearly died in water; I’ve never nearly died in winter, for there’s no such thing as the wrong weather, only the wrong clothing. Inhabitant of the northern byways, I’m outfitted for this unlikely feast.
I would be baptized into the darkness, in the ethereal hallowing of the dying world under a silver that radiates from the ground, swirls in icy breezes, fogs the sharp diamonds and the great round circle which light the black air above. It’s a full moon snow, and sleep and death have fallen. Let it rage; no joy compares to watching it melt away in the dawn of spring.
Image Credits:
Goodnight Moon http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/ / CC BY 2.0
You’re making me miss Manitoba–my last full winter, we had 10 days straight of -35c, and you almost made me long for that. The power of prose…
Oh, and LOOK, now there’s an image to go with the image credit.
Freakin’ wp auto-code issues. {grumble}
Just home from cut-and-wrap on a side of beef out at the uncle’s. Exhausted. L8r Sk8r.
So beautifully put. Craving snow, though not the cold (my old lady joints hate the cold as much as I personally adore it.)
No snow for you yet? You’ll need that, or Christmas can’t come, you realize.
We’re looking at -30C for the next four nights. That’s around -20F. Soooo glad the heating system’s running. Dave’s installing a radiator to replace the exploding bedroom one just now.
In my case, my old lady teeth can’t take the cold. They ache and also crack from breathing the cold air. I have to be really careful about that.
As Red Ray shudders and goes back to enjoying Texas…
There’s a powerful novel lurking in these three paragraphs…just sayin’
Three of them written, and a fourth begun, years ago…they simply need redrafting to meet the quality standards I’ve grown into since. Just sayin’.
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