Monday, February 21, 2011

Snow (Eliot Cardinaux)


Snow


As a desert does not know,
as oceans I find,

As I wake up,
    the heavy snow
    drifts over footfalls
    laying it
    bare on the hill;

bones and features –

stone’s memory,

a seashell;

but I looked
    and they were gone

just as the one
who moved her head
and laughed
had gone inside her season,

I went like snow into the ocean;
this is how it ends and begins.


2/21  ’11

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