Winter Night Driving

we did prepare for seasonal changes flurries, fluttering flakes, melded snow, ice but roads present unforeseen challenges black ice sends vehicles across a slice of pavement destroying the hidden mice blue lights pass, police, ploughs, protectorates finding the lost, clearing the way, like plates hard, dark, covered with salt and sand, and when night breaks, on starry skies, silhouette gates distract – horrid potholes jump up and then…