iceblink
Iceblink is the bright appearance of the sky caused by reflection from a distant ice sheet. This puts me in mind of a Tori Amos phrase, snowblind, from her song of the same name, "SnowBlind":
Some get snowblind
with the daylight
but then with the night
for once see clearly...
We're experiencing a particular iceblink, snowblind day. Despite the darkness that surrounds the solstice, and the unavoidable fact that our hemisphere is turned farther away from the sun, sun light is actually much brighter now on clear days like this when it reflects off the sun. Winter can be brighter (though colder) than summer. There is poetry here.
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