Snow Hell

So… let me get this straight. The Washington DC and Baltimore area are suffering one of their snowiest winters on record – if not the snowiest – with two blizzards in less than a week and the fourth major snowstorm recorded in less than a month. This is in a region which has no infrastructure to deal with such brutal weather and is now virtually crippled as a result. The USA’s most heavily populated region has begun to look [and feel] like a scene out of The Day After Tomorrow.

Meanwhile, way across the continent in Vancouver, British Columbia, where folks would think of these blizzards as they would a day to the beach, there has been a freak dry spell with no snow for more than a month.

But remember, these people are also due to play hosts to the upcoming Winter Olympics, kicking off this weekend. And forecasters now say there will be no snowy weather in time for the games to start.

That’s right, for the first time in history there is a crisis of not enough snow in Canada, probably one of the snowiest places on Earth. Now the Vancouver Olympic organising committee must find a way to still host the world’s biggest winter sporting event in what has become the only place left on the planet complaining of not enough snow this winter. Ha!

What’s that you say? Host the games on the East Coast of America? Well, we soon may not have a choice.

Time's Deceit

These mallard faces do not last

Like frozen pollards they gleam with hope

Iced in fading memories which

Desert them at record pace.

They rise in number

Thousands of famished black pea eyes

Who foolishly assume numbers could defeat

The fury of Time herself.

I collect their imperfections

In a boggled memory bank, burdened by

Graven stones and decaying tomb scripts.

Here we rot together, in a deserted sand yard.

Naivety reigns here,

Our soul eyes are drained of their purity, revealing

We are mere protective glass sheets

Whose demise has been preordained.

They come for us

No pit of shadow to crawl into

The insanity of it all

Is revealed in a single crack, forever and now, we pray.