the thunder of snow plows
throughout the night --
not quite the dance of sugar plum fairies

out from frosty fog:
a man
making fog

gulls wheel
over Derbyshire streets
salt on the breeze

third watch
moon crackles in the window
pulling the covers tight

bare brittle winter ice
creeps leaching deep snow prints

soft white gleam, first snow

NOTE to John McDonald

Hello John,

I received an email from someone who has your same name. But I think it's a fake.

Please write to me a workingwords100@yahoo.com so I can forward it to you.

Isabel

fallen asleep -
three days burnt away
on the advent candle

far away,
it still falls -
the first snow

my breath makes clouds
in the freezing bedroom
warm blankets

the dentist's clock
is draped with tinsel
on either side
relentlessly through time
the pendulum beats on

at the feeder
birds squabbling --
seed husks punctuate fresh snow

by the calendar
not quite winter
--cat watches the snow

I actually have the day off from work today due to snow. This does not bode well!

Christmas lights -
on the cherry tree
frozen raindrops

black anorak
a boy marching to school
watched by crows

early commute
moon dancing in the ice
of car window


any suggetsions?

on the windshield
perfect whorls of frost --
hot coffee melts one or two

.
Santa duty
I ask him not to karate kick
his sister again
.

cold bright morning
a stone Buddha praying
outside the house

Wintry evening--
my grandson toddling round
room to room

damp air
distils on holly berries
miniature worlds