The Great White Drifts Of Winter
The snow is starting to fallBut it’s still a bit warm for it to stick
I stare out the window
And watch those little
Demon snowflakes dancing
Down and down
And my mind opens up
And memories start to leak out
Slowly as through a pinprick
In a bicycle tube
And there is snow
There is always snow
The town where I was born
Was famous for its winters
It’s two foot snowfalls
Way before anyone called it Lake Effect
It would blow and drift
And make amazing shapes
In the local landscape
Like waves of a choppy sea
Frozen in time
And we would bundle up
And attack those drifts
Intrepid Snow Surfers
In bulky winter coats, toques
And ski pants jammed into
rubber boots over three pairs of socks
We would spend hours
In those windswept white dunes
Shooting imaginary bullets at each other
Dying dramatically over and over again
We were young and invincible back then
Pint sized warriors
of our own Imaginary armies
And then we would trudge home,
Soaked to the bone
For hot chocolate and home made
Peanut butter cookies
And there we would sit and stare
Out the window
As the moon, barely visible
Flickered through the clouds
And the next gypsy squall
Wandered in off the lake
And we would dream of
New battles in the
Great White Drifts Of Winter
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Jim Murray
3 years ago #3
Thanks Jerry. All the best in 21
Jerry Fletcher
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Ken Boddie
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