A Motionless Dance

Blankets of snow now;

Dark shadows fall on the ground.

Black and white surround.

Soft clods of snow drop;

Wind chimes swaying silently

In the noiseless breeze.

The two cows standing

Mark the sunshine motionless

On this warm sunny morn.

Light and water flow

In the brisk bubbling stream.

Ice has disappeared.

Burping up the hill,

Loader precedes truck of rocks.

(What are they doing?)

In the white forest

Shadows play upon the snow--

A motionless dance.

Emerging from the snow

Like an archaic creature

Or rising pagoda.

Pole, snow pile shadows:

All stand still and silently

In the winter warmth.