217. With the Season’s First Snowfall

Early evening meteorologists said

snow

wind thru a drftiing
now

snow from
a diffrent form

torn as
a sky
out of
blue

built
& gilt
by sun
light
squzng

blown
as it
blew
in a
blue
figure
of
sleep
& slid
iding
forms

what
glows
from
&
out of
&
to

what
flows
forth
in
froth
&
freez
ing

bil
low
frisson
bo
sun’s
whit
tle to
the
carvd
snowd
earth

en
cased
in
case
the
scene
wd
change
thru
wind
ow’s
vantage
wind
has
seized

&
nothing
snows
but snow
from
piles &
pilings
lifted
from
the earth

remain
con
tain re
frain
from &
the re
frain:

a snow’s
fall
coming
came &
gone
& stays
in white
w/ white
& white
ning

the
wintered
sun
trapt
on the
ground

early evening meterologists said