Last Night, This Morning

Last night the huge velvety vault
of the sky was aglow as rarely seen.
Dimpled with hugely-gathered
snow crystals becoming bright
sparks of crystalline, light-refractive
distractions billowing languidly.

Softly evanescent clumps of snow
crystals languorously drifted
through the earthly atmosphere
luminously illuminated by ambient
sky-diffused light from the
vastness of the city-scape below.

In bright, soft shadings of melon,
mauves and pinks, shedding their
own borrowed brilliance, the
binary snow-gatherings made their
journey, finally assembling into a
vast, all-encompassing comforter
contouring the landscape.

As dawn sent its dim waking light
over the horizon and into the
soft new arras, birds stirred,
lifting heads from under recumbent
wing-havens to view their
brilliantly altered landscape.