Margaret and the Popcorn Snow, 1976

At first

The land behind her

Past the window

Was vivid green

And then as we talked

And as Margaret wept,

Corn snow started

Falling from the sky,

And bouncing

Like sphered tears

Which hers were not,

But outside, the white

Snow dropping, bouncing

On green grass

With no song to follow,

Until once the sorrow

Was finished,

And the lawn

Beyond the window,

Totally blanketed

Laura Stickney 2021

Notes: 

watercolor by Laura Stickney,

frost patterns on window, 1976