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‘Her Spirit Rose Under Its Influence’

Crossed in love, dusting the few

flawed flowers in a window box,

an imponderable falling of snow

 

begins in the town square.

It is gently scheming,

it is skating

 

and all coming downwards.

The snowflakes are fluent

in the sound of

 

touching the earth.

The low sky is brushed white

though somehow puzzled-seeming,

 

charged with smaller particles

than I it comes to diffuse

our feelings that need

 

a weightless snowfall–

it is beginning to

cover the bells of a church.

 

These snowflakes dandle the air

and descend, filling a street for

snowmen then purely repeating–

 

a white woven into a town square

with no one there.

It is difficult to explain

 

where it ends.

We watch the unmodulated

falling snow

 

quiver the air / it is rote white.

 

21 January 2015

Berlin, Germany.

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