Icicles
The Icicles are melting; inverted stalagmites of transclucent brilliance drip frigid water on the ground.
And all I’m really thinking is that there is a row of crystal daggers awaiting my firm grip; after I wrench them from the gutter I can violently smash them into a wayside tree and rejoice as the cold glass splinters into a thousand pieces.
Or else I could pretend they are flavorless popsicles (capable only of producing brainfreeze and acid-snow induced sickness)…
stalactites?
stalactites hang down from the top of a cave, stalagmites are on the floor of a cave and stick up (hence my inverting them to describe icicles).
Tim did you know that the average icicle grows 5 to 6 in. Of couse not, your to busy cuting them down… You know your lucky you get lots of icicles, meanwhile here in KC we get none, I’m thirsty…