Linda M. Crate
& the beyond
the first snow fall
is the only one i like
because
the cold scarcely has ever
made me happy
with all its biting fangs and deep silence
the decay of flowers and plants,
and the scent of death and the sadness
of those who struggle with their
poverty;
i am emotionally drained in winter
as if the snow comes into my very bones
sucking straight from the marrow--
but that first snow fall
is something magical
a spell of soft white laughter that glitters
in the sun and beneath street lamps
when i walk home at night,
and there is no mud or dirt to mask the beauty
of it;
nor is there the exhaustion that comes when it lingers too long
just the pure simple song of the first snow
glimmering.
Linda M. Crate is an author, poet, and writer from Pennsylvania. Her works have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies both online and in print. She is the author of five published chapbooks, a microchap, and the novel Phoenix Tears (Czykmate Books, June 2018).
& the beyond
the first snow fall
is the only one i like
because
the cold scarcely has ever
made me happy
with all its biting fangs and deep silence
the decay of flowers and plants,
and the scent of death and the sadness
of those who struggle with their
poverty;
i am emotionally drained in winter
as if the snow comes into my very bones
sucking straight from the marrow--
but that first snow fall
is something magical
a spell of soft white laughter that glitters
in the sun and beneath street lamps
when i walk home at night,
and there is no mud or dirt to mask the beauty
of it;
nor is there the exhaustion that comes when it lingers too long
just the pure simple song of the first snow
glimmering.
Linda M. Crate is an author, poet, and writer from Pennsylvania. Her works have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies both online and in print. She is the author of five published chapbooks, a microchap, and the novel Phoenix Tears (Czykmate Books, June 2018).