Winter River Update

The Merrimack still runs free although some treacherously cold weather is forecasted for tonight and tomorrow. So ice could develop a surface meaning. But with warmer weather forecasted for Wednesday and the sun climbing higher in the sky every day, we may not ice over this winter at all. That blue streak running through the wintry white landscape may last all season. But colder weather is forecasted again for next weekend. So the elements will certainly be deadlocked still in a struggle for control of the river. Stay tuned. Meanwhile, Ezra Pound has something to say:

Ancient Music

Winter is icummen in,
Lhude sing Goddamm.
Raineth drop and staineth slop,
And how the wind doth ramm!
Sing: Goddamm.

Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us,
An ague hath my ham.
Freezeth river, turneth liver,
Damn you, sing: Goddamm.

Goddamm, Goddamm, 'tis why I am, Goddamm,
So 'gainst the winter's balm.

Sing goddamm, damm, sing Goddamm.
Sing goddamm, sing goddamm, DAMM.