Seeing Snow

Snow...

Has been crawling up trees like overly-large albino catepillars, or slugs leaving trails of white mucas behind them, or sub-sandwiches pickable and munchable

Snow has been clining to twigs like particles of pussy willows

Snow has been hugging limbs like giant rodents, balancing with the aide of long tails, attempting to soak up the sun

Snow has been capping scarlet berries with crystal drops of white

Snow has been pillowing woodland arches with wild wraps

Snow has been carved by the wind, flaked and shattered into pointed shards

Snow has been following winter-browned flowers with funnels of shadow

Snow has been skating around golden grass stems, leaving a history of subtle waves

And snow has been bluing and dancing and growing in reddened peach orchards

And growing in the sun