The Gravity of Snow

Drifts slide over
                            their white-weight,
the heaps are their own snow-plows.
Mounds are erased and remodeled
          by a laboring wind.

When the world is a white-out
          perception forgets color,
the departed draw nearer.

Graveyard trees
                creak,
        heavy the waiting
        of the gone away,
their ghostly tread
descending
to be invisible once more
          under stone heads.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2022

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