Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky...

[e_juliana]

The cold is brutal. I am summer-soft, invalid-weak, unprepared for this bone-searing chill. Its icy fingers creep into our home, pervading every nook and cranny, making action impossible and sleep a refuge. The knife-sharp wind howls up the hill, slicing away protective layers and lacerating the delicate skin. Warmth is an mirage, shimmering and beckoning in this frosty desert.

Utterly frozen is this youthful lady,
Even as the snow that lies within the shade

I admit to being weaker than most, to being more affected by it this year, to not enjoying the struggle as I once did. My accident plays a large part in that, as does our new home, which has location and age working against it.

However, the projected lows will be staying in the negative digits for the next 5 days at the least, and will be accompanied by strong winds. This will not be pleasant.

This is the Hour of Lead—
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow—
First—Chill—then Stupor—then the letting go—


(edit: a three-fer! Shakespeare, Dante, and Emily Dickinson. All hail Bartlett's, the one-stop shop for poor memories that recall a whiff of a line of a poem.)

Comments

[pix-kristin.livejournal.com]

I think you should move to warmer climes, like New England. (Boy do I not get to say that often.)

[e-juliana.livejournal.com]

Hee! Yeah, probably not. I don't see how New England could be much of a weather improvement, though. You guys get nasssssssty winter storms too, right?

[pix-kristin.livejournal.com]

Not too bad on the southern coast, actually. Our winters are usually in the 30's, with a fair number of 20's and 40's days thrown in. NSM with the negative numbers except in a cold snap now and then. Of course, we do sometimes have a really bad winter...but our really bad winters sound like your normal winters. Brrrr.

And OMGWTF do I love your icon.

[e-juliana.livejournal.com]

Well, this is a bad winter, but your winters sound like our really very good winters. I used to like it, though. NSM this year.

Thanks! I love your icons, too, especially the tat. (And the comedy sheep crack me the fuck up every time I use them.)

[pix-kristin.livejournal.com]

Comedy sheep! Bwah!

So yes, you should come to live in CT. Tempt tempt.

Kate P. works at Hartford Stage you know. IJS.

[wildgreentide.livejournal.com]

I do, it's true! juliana, you should totally move to New England. I'd be pushing for Western Mass, except we do tend to get nastier winter weather than coastal CT. But how cool would it be to have a juliana in our midst? Very cool indeed.