Snow in the Woods

A monochrome whitewash
over the world, the browns and the greens
hidden under the white
The grasses and the edges
of the oak leaves, the fallen limbs
still visible under the fine cover
the dusting of white,
deepening in the woods
snow to cause the denizens
to leave tracks where they would not otherwise
marks, footprints of their presence
white covering the world
even in the woods,
after the fall of the leaves
this autumn

November 23, 2007 4:51pm