Snowflakes

The frozen skybreath awakes

Photo by Wolfgang Hasselmann on Unsplash

Sullen snowflakes sit
compacted retracted
falling day by day
slowly seeping-weeping-sifting
through thicknesses’ fog of cloudy sky
white and gray coagulate
and smother life away

moons melt mediocre mist
yielding gray — then white
hours and minutes pass
sun’s pointing prisms
here — alas!
crispy airblue
snatches
snow everywhere
the frozen
skybreath awakes
nothing dares to fall
azure semi-sphere
of atmos
above — is empty

Ann Marie Steele

~This piece was penned in 1983, my senior year in high school.