Light flakes dancing in the breeze
playfully falling
to become
a pretty white sprinkling
on drowsy lawns
Preparing for winter sleep
Lace over the body of the forest
Socks on its feet
The stuff of sport
and recreation
playfights
and shoveling
A nuisance
Making your eyes water
Whipping your cheeks
Allying with the wind to
Cut your breathing
Wetness
As you warm up, inside
The heaviness
that bends branches
and makes
roofs
cave in
and shackles the feet
on sidewalks
or across fields
A scourge
That fells old trees
Cuts power
Makes you swerve
off the road
fall and
bruise
or break
something
A whole landscape
of white
never quite white
pink-fleshed,
blue-sided
sun-gilded
Silver-lit
spring-browned
eventually
A change in the air
we breathe
A blanket of calm
an invitation to slow down
A sign
of celebrations to come
warm food
soothing drinks
A change on the horizon
a change of the horizon
The snow, like us
can be many things
