Monday, January 04, 2016

Cinquain Snow

Cinquain Snow

Sober snowfall
pillow-white sky
mesmerizing array
Wilson Bentley buffet
flake to individual flake
uniqueness united in drifts
Which is the illusion ~
unique or unity?
Were I to gaze
from a distance
into the glass snow globe
that is my earth today
we snowflakes would swirl and free fall
landing on a communal mound
then melt into puddles
to evaporate in
order to start
over again

or we
millions
would soon collect
on cedar limbs
like abominable
insentient beings
hanging out along Nordic tracks
a cheering crowd of spectators
in this strange race ~ a marcescence
like deciduous in winter
withering, yet still so attached

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