year-round winter more anxious every day ~
dusting off lawn chairs confident this rodent speaks the truth ~
inhibited spruce straight jacket of ice until the sun ~
mincemeat pies impressed by the snowdrifts she makes by hand ~
freezing rain a fairy godmother for the trees ~
deep puddles of melted snow groundhog-inspired
thirty below the unfixed baluster taps in the wind ~
silent the snow falls increasing the shadows threatened, and alone ~
suddenly awake snow from high branches down my neck ~
brushing off snow the night before brushing off snow ~
