SNOW ANGEL: a poem

SNOW ANGEL
by Marcail

Compact and crystalline.

Steely grey cloud burst

Winter, keening and howling, snapped and downed branches

Snowflake fractuals like monochromatic klaidoscope eyes

Opened to snow globe world of fluttering angel feathers,

Compact and crystalline.

Snow angel

One dimensional, frozen in flat state

worried as the sunlight caressed and

compressed the cares of the world into

impenetrable ice.

Compact and crystalline

I understood the watershed and the cycles,

The terrifying beauty of whiteout blizzards and avalanche

Once with cold-rouged cheeks cocooned in snowsuit

I trudged through thigh-deep banks

towards the shelter of a snow fort.

Compact and crystalline

I fell and hell froze over.
Surrounded by deadly snowballs
Etched snow fossil
Frozen in time.

Compact and crystalline.