How Do They Do It?

 

Fine falling snow flakes
Add to the layer of white
Covering the lawn.

 

Dusting through the air
The snow provides its own screen--
Movie of winter.

 

 Going to my porch
A rabbit races away
Leaving just his tracks.

 

 Snow frosts everything
From the tops of the fence posts
To the crotch of weeds.

 

Forsythia bush
Is blooming plump white flowers;
(They will last a day.)

 

Thick white clumps of snow
Falling softly from the trees
Speak in faint whispers.

 

How does it do it--
Cling to the tops of thin plants,
This magical snow?

With apparent ease
Snow clods rest on pine needles;
How do they do it?