A New Beauty: Snowfall across the Parks

East side Reservoir:





Canal Park







Trout Creek Parkway



Lehigh Parkway




Union Terrace:




Between plants,
in the wilderness
of deep summer,
thick noise in
leaves and branches

Cricket violins,
locust hum,
prancing frantic
mantis dances
on the ground.

Listen,
know the sound.

Today
globe snow and
silence.
cake trees,
iced creeks,
white mutes.

Nature
stranger
under accumulation.

(I stood, cold,
I watched the snow fall.

The world seemed wearied.
I am wearied by this world. )

Snow melt,
freeze,
melt, snow again.

Soon,
a birth of familiar sound-
nature to spring
beginnings


For today,
a new beauty.

For more snow posts:

The Snopocalypse of 2010

Snowfall, Canal Park, Lehigh Parkway and Wallace Stevens

Solstice: Second Snowfall

First Snowfall: Lehigh Parkway