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First Snow (Free verse) by http://mulberryfairy
The gentle army returns. Veterans, each one, parading Maine St. halting to gather about a patch of fallen leaves here, a wooden fencepost there. Children’s faces flush with excitement, foreheads covered by flat, dampened hair. They attempt to capture the unpredictable chunks; candy thrown from the celebratory firetruck. The parade gathers past the bridge between Maine and Main where a dingy spray leaps off the river as water pushes over the dam; fervor renewed. Homecoming, six long months since your last show in April, I’d nearly forgotten you even to prepare for your welcome, unsure that you’d ever return from the arctic trenches to liberate us from the tourists.

Up the ladder: the smallest box will do

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Posted: October 23, 2003 7:47 PM PDT; Last modified: October 23, 2003 7:47 PM PDT
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[9] abecedarian @ 4.40.32.229 | 23-Oct-03/11:38 PM | Reply
Yeah you like the snow now, but you'll soon have had your fill.

And we of California will be left with our eternal comfort - deprived of the joy of difference.

Maybe after not too long you'll wish you could cart it all out here for all of us to enjoy (until it melts)?
[n/a] http://mulberryfairy @ 216.195.145.208 > abecedarian | 24-Oct-03/5:25 PM | Reply
Not me, I mourn when it melts in April. When she was 3, my daughter said "Can't we just throw it all in a garbage can and then it will be summer?"
[9] Scarlett @ 70.171.72.141 | 26-Mar-06/9:54 AM | Reply
I've only seen snow a couple of times in my life, when I visited cousins in Maryland and a ski trip in Colorado.. We had snow the winter before Katrina ~ something rarely seen in New Orleans. I have come to associate one with the other (snow ~ hurricane), oddly enough and hope to never have snow here again.

Though the joy you expressed in this poem makes me long for a mountain trip before it melts.
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