Haloed By The Snow

Billows of white flakes
Obscure visibility;
And then they are gone.












The carved wooden owl
Still leaning against the tree
Is covered with snow.












Bird silhouette
Dark against the mottled sky
Still as a statue.

In a few moments
The world is covered in white
As if always so.












Roaring down the road,
Hard steel plows into snow flakes
Chugging and grunting.

As flakes start to fall
Jaunty walker swings her arms
Smiling like a child.



Sun rays through the trees
Illuminate the small pine
Haloed by the snow.












Barbed wire around trunk
Looks feeble and rusted now--
Tree is still growing.