Thursday, December 1, 2011

THE SNOW FALL

Oh the snow,
muffling footfalls and the sound of traffic,
bending branches,
putting hats on gateposts
scarves on statues,
and icing on my cake,
dazzling in the sunlight,
prestine, virginal when I woke
and was amazed as always
by the shere improbablity
of something silently transforming
everything I saw.

But it won't last, you know.
A few decades ago it did -
lasted longer than we wanted -
but not for years has it lingered
more than a day or so,
and sledging's altered
into sliding
down muddied,
browning slopes.

Has something really happened
which never can be changed?

Is something
silently transforming everything I knew?


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