Snowmaking Sonnet

Two rust-red tubes running up the hillside, by the wood's edge, hidden just in the trees, they have water, and compressed air inside, pumped up the mountain to hydrants steely. Hoses conduct it to tall silver tubes, snow guns that spray the white stuff on the trail, coating brown grasses, hiding them from view, building tall piles that some call snow-whales. The groomers will come and flatten them out, leave corduroy patterns on the long slope, the skiers will come and race on a cloud, they don’t like to wait when winter is slow. One must be consistent in a business, take five Mother Nature, we have got this.