milk, flour, eggs...

photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt ©

a patty cake snow day

meteorology is a science

between the magic

of wide-eyed expression and

the tiny lives of dust removed

from oceans and rivers 

thrown into the skies

the weather is a disguise

we learn to fall 

in love during Winter 

frozen in hexagonal rain

women know what to do

for bread and death

kneading life into vignettes

mooring it to dreams

sliced and spoken

spinning it into tokens

that we pocket and carry

all our pin-wheeled serenades

of remembering songs

we sang at Summer camp

we look with longing

out the windows

there is a sea of white

there's no school today

we are sleeping in

hip hip hooray

the weekend has come

early and often and

it is time to fire up

the ovens and

the stones

time to make cakes

breads and scones

EJR ©