The Big Snow

with three snow poems

Snow in front of Swan House

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Three poems about the current blizzard.  They were written during the afternoon of Monday, January 26.


.Big Snow

snow 
filling the windows

trees bending
cars tiptoe by

my joints ache
worse than
before

our cats are quiet
keeping their eyes on food 
in case
the going gets tough

my wife
takes extra food
to the cats outside

they bound
over the snow
towards her

even her birds
come down close
for seeds

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You Tire of Snow

you tire of snow

it’s white like time

who believes
it’s two gasses?

it’s more like a hammer
pounding a nail

or a silent siren
wailing past 
about nothing

each dark day
lived under a blanket

touch a tree:
it rings like a bell

run the tap:
silence fills the sink


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Handkerchief

 
snow is
a skin you didn’t want
a white ass’s skin

fixed tight as breath
over your bones

a hard fist of weather
passing as a
handkerchief

I sleep
the snow counterpane
up to my chin

I am cold
as a fish

and older:
the cold
ages you

A Snow-blue Still Life