Snow days – Celebrations - Assassinations - Man dies
rescuing dog…
The frosty brightness of the snow covered hills, even
at five am gleamed extraordinary, extra-terrestrially,
across the vale, as severe weather warnings amid breaking
news of crashed vehicles, blizzard-blanketed, de-railed and
haphazard, threatened a smooth sojourn into work.
Frosties crackled in bowls, mocking melting icicles
momentarily caught mid-state from solid to liquid,
in sub-zero Siberian temperatures, before returning to
dangerously black ice, awaiting further victims in the
quietude of drips and sunshine, as breaking dawn
streaks pink glows across the frozen skies.
Economists count up lost commerce, mirrored by
bean-counters in local authorities, fearing for budget
deficits in policing, fire, ambulance services. Rapidly
re-writing policies in NHS back offices, stretching limited
bandages, preserving prescriptions for a sick economy,
made sicker by politicians and weather alike.
Amid met-office ‘yellow’ warnings and school closures,
BBC tells of ‘ghost’ trains, cancelled flights. And disruption
is measured in millimetres; the realities are more simply defined
in reports of death – un-named people on numbered roads as
freak conditions and perfect storms play havoc with life, pictured
in Technicolor, over a billion electronic signals of light.
On another channel, fairy-tale images
from a far-away world tell Jubilant crowds majestic tales…a stark contrast with the
hasty re-tweeting of Kim Jong un’s ...
assassination by social media.
So much snow; All in a week’s news.
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