Severity of shocking season shakes
the praise of winter’s snow with steaming heaps
of peeled-off clothes, sports hills of icy lakes.
Days of wind whipped acerbations, bus creeps,

slip and slide; gripes of length of scarves angles
shifts balance and bedecks snow-bound angels
falling patterned into sketchings, slither
hither with the sleet of stinging blizzards

icy sheath. Snow forts carved with rosy cheek,
laughter rings as skates go white and zinging
crystals twist with falling flakes, soft and sleek;
sparkle unerased by hushness ringing.

Slipping, sliding, cars go gliding, ditches
width newly seeking victims of glitches.

Erin Moen
11/16/03
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