Snowed

It snowed last night which pleased me - but hardly enough - it just teased me. The thin, white sheet of snow looked bright and fresh the dull, browned hedges of fall became holiday dressed, the air had a sharp, chill perfume and the ground a new, sparkling flesh. Lisa, a New Yorker who knows snow, gawked at me as if I were insane, “You’re excited by NOTHING,” she sarcastically complained. I replied, “When it snows there’s a quiet solace, and the world looks clean and flawless.” The weatherman is promising us a blanket of snow this weekend and that would be nice, a storm of ice, to lock us in as the week ends.