January snow
a crisp, white page
a new year.
Nature sketches
last years grasses
to remind us of next June’s.
Hardwoods show their bones
redbirds paint
the hemlocks.
In the cold pewter sky
a crow featherstitches
the clouds.
White flakes drift like
windblown curtains -
January snow.
Photo curtesy of Russell
http://iowagrasslands.blogspot.com/
