Snow

The deep dark velvet

of the winter night has been

overlaid with a veil of white

tumbling furiously throughout

the sleeping hours,

clusters of snowflakes

casting themselves into the landscape,

swept everywhere by the

fiercely whipping winds, a

powerful interplay between

late winter cold, atmospheric damp

and air movement aspiring

to become a gale. Spring's arrival

has been placed in suspension

to wait out a mid-March storm

heroic in its defiance of an

adamantly lingering season,

loath to surrender its place on

centre-stage in the theatrical drama

of progressive seasonal alteration;

an altercation of tempestuously

competing climatic whims,

defying the inevitability

of nature's plan.