Snow Today! and so, a Poem, one Poem...for Snow in these Sierras....

ONE POEM FOR SNOW

The Fire is almost warm in the face of this Snow

No Wind is not engaged in rings of silver with this Land

I hold you for warmth and will not let go

To my bones is Cold and no Snow is a blanket

For this human need

The White is clean and brighter than the Moon

Still, the Sun will send it into water then to transpire

Into clouds not of our making

Snow is not Royalty as Ice can be

It can kill but is not willing

Ice is willing, Fire, more than Ice

Snow Avalanches fall from every Tree

Rain Snow down to the earth

Each crystal shatters

Is not Snow anymore

Bears who are still in Dens

Stretch and yawn and smell

This Snow

Turn over in their sleep

To wait for Melt

Snow Melt will come

Land gives over to Water

Snow leaves quiet

Somewhere inbetween

Only this patch

Black from cinders on this road

Reminds:

Once I was Great and Covered All

Once I was No Sign Of Life

On the Life of this Land

Once

I was

Snow