:snow poems:

: snow on tree trunks :

light laces, sharply
curving-- splits,
forks
through dark trees,
lances upward, lightning-like
into inky blackness,
numerical arms
branching, breaking earth
Open and
arcing out into
Air. a stag

lifts his stately head.

2/22/05 4.06 am
edit: 9/12/05 1.44 pm`

:transience of vision:
my wealth comes from above

diamonds sparkling, condensed and
swirling: a Universe is falling from
fathomless skies tonight. Innumerable
stars eddy, like snowflakes
on the ground, cluster in drifts and
repose, web-like, on tree branches,
clinging to brown bark and
coating every bush like black ice.
it is only when the night's light
hits its slick surface --- suddenly,
sideways --- only then does it
brEAk
its crystalline
silence;

glorified tears betray
Contentment.

3/3/02 edit 2/23/06 7.51 pm
edit 4/6/06 3.22 am london

:conservation:

woke this morning, lifted salty
eyes to a small window frosted with chill.

condensed upon the pane: night's dew
from my cheeks and shining eyes, transformed.

outside, dark-needled giants bow, scrape
Earth, weighed down with the
weight of my
heart;
white as snow.

a cardinal wreaks havoc.

11/9/05 11.53 am
(about 11/7/05,
unexpected snow)