Sedimentary Snow
Feb 18 2022
Snow is banked against the windows.
All season, this incremental layering
on the lower sill.
So looking out
it's like the wall
of an archaeological dig
down through time.
Or as if the history of winter
was geological,
recorded
in bands of snow
instead of stratified rock.
Against the heat
slowly trickling
through the triple-pane glass
the snow has turned coarse, and granular.
The shapes are sculptural,
lying in flowing waves
against the clear flat surface;
each window
a unique work of art.
The impression
is of relentlessness,
as if a long enough winter
and the house would be swallowed up;
consumed by snow, until it vanished,
just the chimney
reaching out like the hand
of a drowning man
grasping at air.
But for now, cozy,
tucked
into warm dry snow.
And charming, as well,
a gingerbread house
with sweet vanilla icing
spilling over its walls.
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