1/25/2009

little icicles

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midday sunshine -
the icicles fall
with a PING


We are in another cold wave,
minus 4 centigrade this morning.
The snow dripps slowly from the roof, forming little icicles of about 5 cm length on each indenture of the tin. They hang in there like the teeth of a saw.

When I was out for a moment, I heared a PING of something hitting metal, one more PING ...
The icicles fell one by one and hit the metal grit of the water drainage,

a natural organ playing the PINGS ...



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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Gabi, this sounds just right (PING on metal), and is a perfect image, at least for the smaller to moderate sized ones.
Here, we have had far too many days with wind chills that give us the equivalent of minus 30 centigrade!
If it goes up to any single digit minus temperature, it feels
positively balmy! In fact, we had a high of minus 5 early this morning (it's 8:45 a.m. now) and that is to go 'down' to minus 12 by afternoon (even with the sun), and minus 15 overnight with a high of minus 10 tomorrow.

a friend from Canada

Anonymous said...

si staccano nel
sole pomeridiano
i ghiaccioli: PING

M. from Italy

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