I dash from the porch and promptly do battle with ice, Stagger to join rows of bundled-up neighbors, gentle as mice, They stamp frozen feet and wave with woolly mitts Slogans on floppy placards, too chill to move lips, And dream of springtime to melt the grip of ICE.
A British/ Canadian/ American scientist specializing in reproduction & embryology whose career spanned from Cambridge to Cornell's Weill Medical College in NYC. Married to Lucinda Veeck, the embryologist for the first successful IVF team in America. They retired to Virginia, where he became a master naturalist and writer affiliated with William & Mary. He also writes on Substack at What’s Hot in Fertility? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Gosden