Fueled by sun
buffeted by air
higher
Water climbs higher and
til seizing a speck of dust
and then each other
They freeze
into
hexagons of ice
unique in
shape
size
altitude.
Finally they succumb
to Earth’s siren call.
Snow
F
A
L
L
S
.
A
tumbling
billowing mass of white
clutching sleeves
eyelashes
branches
erasing colors.
Flake clusters meet the river,
instantly dissolve,
rejoin their polarized molecular brothers
Their source
Their essence
Then scurry toward the sea
to begin.
Again.
