Expiration Date

The pewter vault of the sky
clamped over the land
is impervious to the
futile claim of the
Spring Equinox
that it has arrived and
courteously invited spring
to make its long-awaited
appearance. In a display of
hubristic entitlement
a snowstorm is unleashed
its burden of wildly
tumbling snow clasps
the environment in
brilliant white, the
evanescent brightness of
snow varnishing the
landscape with its frozen
monopolistic splendour
as spring civilly awaits the
finalization of winter's
lease on its superannuated
and oh so very cranky season.