More permanent than the ice the roads re-carved the Catskills. They arched around the bases tighter and tighter into strangles and cut straight up the sides gutting the land, splitting it into new valleys.
My grandfather’s face whittled down with them over time and he died, blue-white behind his house along the access road to the cell tower that cast shadows among the basswood and ticked away like a giant sundial.
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