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The Great March Thaw/Melt of 2010
That no one in these parts has seen a March like this Suggests that the inordinate warmth Is more than just a natural aberration, an atmospheric anomaly. This phenomenal event is, indeed, momentous. The lake is amazed, watching its ice thaw a month too soon.
Even the vexed earth, inundated, second to second, By the tenacious sunrays of these past two fifty-degree days, Is aghast, as the snow goes, faster and faster, Pulling its own white rug out from under its mass, Frightened by its unprecedented capacity to do away with itself.
Each winter for the last ten thousand years, Give or take a few millenniums, This lake has frozen over solid, with stolid ice, And the land has cloistered its leaves and pine needles, Until mid-April's swelling bell knells winter's demise.
"What in hell's going on, around here?" Everyone in the village of Lake Nebagamon is wondering. "Could it be we're to blame?" they keep asking themselves, With uncharacteristic self-incrimination, Fearing vacationers will soon start arriving year round.
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