Thursday, January 15, 2009

ten below

i knew it was coming,
i had been told countless horror stories of its impending arrival. 
i just didn't really know the true extent of its wrath.
as in, january in chicago.

when it's too cold to snow, that's when it's bad. if i step out my front door into flurry of big fluffy snowflakes, i seem to forget that it's freezing out. i adopt the excitement of a six year old and have to command every muscle in my body to contain my urge to make a snow angel in the empty parking lot next to my building. 

this is going to be a trying time on my appendages. my cheeks and tip of my nose and eyelids will hate me, my fingers will curse my gloves for not working overtime. when i inhale its like my lungs will freeze solid from the air inside them. 



au revoir simone - fallen snow

wait, it gets better!


 

3 comments:

Monica said...

horrendous? :c i am not looking forward to the weather in new york when i go back. i hear it gets terrible in february which is, as you know, my birthday. i spose i'll spend it indoors

lorraine pavelin said...

i thought my eyelids were going to freeze and peel off.

and now i think i have a cold :(

Anonymous said...

It's winter here in ILLINOIS
and gentle breezes blow
at seventy-seven miles per hour
and twenty-five below

Oh, how I do love ILLINOIS
when snow's up to your butt
You take a breath of winter
and your nose gets frozen shut

The weather here is wonderful
I guess I'll hang around
I could never leave ILLINOIS
'cause I'm frozen to the ground!