Singular, individual drops of snow, beating into the sides of cars, bodies and houses. Separate frozen bits of water coalescing together into an impregnable white. Smoothly contoured grains of ice encasing vehicles still submerged in the parking lot, still stiff from the position of last night. Clear, distorting cubes of ice float the surface of the lime-colored pitcher, ambient light drops lower and lower outside, the triple-paned windows insulating well. pertaining to color, serpentine.

Opening. Gradually rotating, closing. Releasing, growing larger. Tightening. Wider and louder, more. Sweeping piano sections cross-hatching and being swept up into violin strings, overpowering with bass notes. Stretched wooden caskets echo and enlarge their bellies, bellowing a lipped deepvibration. Enigmatic points dance high atop the range, pipes slowly leak steam, pitching gently up along the wall’s surface. Stiff waves of static ruffle the airspace. Broken responders and transceivers begin to howl, express their distress. Keys continue to rise and fall, suspended over the illumined abyss. 

1. baileyana prostrate form in cultivation, Illawarra Grevillea Park, Bulli, NSW 

There are less native speakers of English than those who have learned. The Great Vowel Shift somewhere between 1400 and 1700.