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Feb. 24th, 2003 09:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aslantthis morning i heard a whipporwill.
it was warmish and rainy this weekend. on saturday i walked with my umbrella all up and down the boston common, and back bay, and up newbury street and around copley square. i wore my worn old black shoes, which steadfastly refuse to leak no matter how many puddles i tromp through. so many puddles downtown!
but it froze last night, so there is ice everywhere this morning. sometimes i skate to work more than i walk. i passed the revolutionary war graveyard by the colonial church - it dips down on one side into a hollow, so all the rain and snowmelt collects there. with the overnight freeze, there are the tiny tips of old gravestones poking up out of a huge milky pond of ice.
a girl walking in front of me was startled by it, and stopped to stare. i did, too. with the weak sun there were strange patterns deeper down in the ice, and i wondered what happens to coffins and bones underground in a freeze like this. do they swell with water, and then break? i picture rotting wooden boxes filled with shattered bone fragments from all the days like this in all the winters of all the last several hundred years.
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it was warmish and rainy this weekend. on saturday i walked with my umbrella all up and down the boston common, and back bay, and up newbury street and around copley square. i wore my worn old black shoes, which steadfastly refuse to leak no matter how many puddles i tromp through. so many puddles downtown!
but it froze last night, so there is ice everywhere this morning. sometimes i skate to work more than i walk. i passed the revolutionary war graveyard by the colonial church - it dips down on one side into a hollow, so all the rain and snowmelt collects there. with the overnight freeze, there are the tiny tips of old gravestones poking up out of a huge milky pond of ice.
a girl walking in front of me was startled by it, and stopped to stare. i did, too. with the weak sun there were strange patterns deeper down in the ice, and i wondered what happens to coffins and bones underground in a freeze like this. do they swell with water, and then break? i picture rotting wooden boxes filled with shattered bone fragments from all the days like this in all the winters of all the last several hundred years.
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