Waiting for Snow

Waiting for Snow

We wait
for white angels
to float from the heavens
blanketing lime green
peony shoots just emerging
from damp earth,
delicate daffodils
boldly gracing the
garden, the brown
detritus of a long winter.
We wait to see if
tomorrow will be a
snow day, when we can
burrow under the covers
and finish our novels,
or another day to trudge
into work delayed by
icy roads and bad drivers.
So we wait for angels

falling from the heavens,

those six-sided
miracles we call snow.

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