"The snow came down last night like moths

Burned on the moon; it fell till dawn,

Covered the town with simple cloths."

                      from   First Snow in Alsace

                                Richard Wilbur

We are poised now between fall and winter 

slipping between the two with the same ease

with which we chose between a jacket for a 

walk or a winter coat. Thursday I wore my parka for

a lunch time walk to the pond in the Research

Park.

As always there were ducks.

The following quote comes from a poem

I found on my favorite poetry website

Poetry Daily a new poem every day

there are also great articles.

 

"Snow has sentimentalized the world,
left it sugar-coated, a baked Alaska
conjured from the palest of vanilla ice creams,
the purest of swan's egg whites,
its mushy, too-sweet-to-be-wholesome look
topped with a confection of candied trees—
bare-branched candelabras—holly waxing
eloquent with berries in a citric winter dusk. "

 

from Snow

                                   Dennis O'Driscoll