Just enough snow
to cover roads
with slime.
I listen to the radio,
weighing my options.
Innes Road bumper to bumper.
Rockliffe a parking lot.
Riverside brought to a halt.
Montreal Road a bottleneck.
On 417, a crawl.
On the bridges, chaos.
Easy to choose when informed.
(Editor’s note: poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, examines current events in the Blacklock’s tradition each and every Sunday)
