Day of Contrasts
Bright sunshine warms southern slopes
While gritty snow piles hunker in north slope shadows.
Strings of honking geese barrel north
While a mangy raccoon staggers to die under an overturned
boat.
Warmed sap swells into bud laden reaches
While chocolate melted mountain snows carry dead tree
trunks in roiling currents.
All around life stirs
While winter refuses to go quietly into that warm night.
albi
Copyright, 2003