ice_cream tender_square he said given the roads we may only make it to whole foods for a pint of ben and jerry's. a foot of thick snow fell in the overnight; the city sent an emergency alert to our cell phones saying to stay off the streets. we walked his neighbourhood that morning, surveying the damage done to maples, hearing the hum of generators. a power line exploded like a silver firework, pop pop pop, as we pulled a treetop away from his front porch. by afternoon, forty degree temps dropped shaken snow from boughs below. the plows were out shoving slush into driveways and rivers of melt ran ruts along curbs. on the way across town, i noticed the dairy queen was unshuttered, one of the first signs of spring, so we stopped. he got a brownie batter blizzard, i took a dipped kids cone. we ate in the car as i sang happy birthday to his mother. she would've been sixty-three today. 230304 what's it to you? who go blather from