This is an REI co-op studios production.

You can't see anything.

No, that's not quite true.

You can see the bottom of your thick wool hat

and the top of your frozen scarf bundled up to your eyes.

You can see little flakes of snow

white against a white gray background

driven past your face by the wind that roars all around you.

But that's all you can see.

Until, up ahead,

you see something black.

A little smudge of perfect darkness,

hovering in horizonless white space.

As your steps crunch closer,

the darkness rounds out into a little circle.

A jagged little circle,

a hole crudely chopped in the thick lake ice.

A window from the white nothingness of this world

into the black emptiness under your feet.

You beat your hands against your thighs

to get some feelings in your mittened fingers

and then knock away the thin ice that's formed over the hole.

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