Monday, January 30, 2017

Snow and irony

 Last week it snowed and we still had class.

 

Snow Day

They didn’t cancel school today.

Thus, we were compelled

to brace ourselves and leave behind

the shelter of our incubators,

tucking chins and trudging

through air laced with tiny crystals fleeting

and determined to crown the world

with a layer of stardust.

 

Our boots left tracks

like snapshots of our souls, etched

into the crushed-diamond coating

on the sidewalk.

We pursued them under trees

dormant

barely stirring in the minty breeze

whose close, insulated cold

felt worth it then, annointed

by snow

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