WATCHING SNOW MELT

Watching Snow Melt

   I lie here in bed

           Cast heavy on

   Arm and wrist

           Resting on the pillow

                     That covers my heart

I lie here in bed over

          These long slow days

                Watching snow melt

Snow melts in whimpers

  On foggy chill days

           Like yesterday

Today the sun has peeked

In and out
 Caressing the pines

                   Snow slightly murmurs

                            Warm wafting through

Mountain changes daily

Much like my hurt tired limbs

Snow daily is less full of

     Puffed arched pilings

Now she is

                     Scantly cladding gray rocks

     Brown needle risings

     With dusty

                  salt sprinkles confused

Looking back at me

Pines Trees

      Still thirsty from their

          Parched hopeful days

       There were no snow dripping pines

         Or rivelets trickling down the mounds

Mysterious this

                Watching snow melt

As it goes away from

             Itself cold and glistening

Into white cloud trailings

                Lingering tentatively on
                     The ground