Today is also ending--
at the bottom of the snowstorm
the gigantic sun

---Arō

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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