Blue-Sky Snow

Surely Nature has confused her
cues, mislaid her complex weather
blueprints and resorted to the
impulse to spontaneous reaction
forgetting that cloudless skies of
blue shimmering in the bold
golden light of a winter sun 
absolves the atmosphere of its
obligation to blanket the landscape
with an opaque veil of gently
descending snow, glinting and
shimmering, a gift from the sky
to the Earth below, muffling
the confusion of voices
questioning the wind and the air
at this caprice where biting cold
and flawless blue conspire to
produce the unlikely prospect of 
a defiantly snow-filled day.