snowfall

crystal flakes
clumped and heavy
barely touched by air

fall and turn
in the wake
of their own turbulence

an unbroken line
perpendicular
to heaven and earth

its snow stranded
till thaw drains
the fallen sky

deeper into stone
scattered drift
by scattered drift

then longer days
will slide across
the speckled hills

with spring
and resurrection
rising in the rivers

© BH, 2023

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