Post by Robert Stephen Herrick on Dec 28, 2012 6:18:51 GMT -5
Morning of the Crystals
By Robert Stephen Herrick
In the darkness
before the cold dawn,
small crystals melted
then lightly thawed
froze from a watery
mush and slickened
from a pasty texture
into a more solid form
once amorphous ...
Before the light of
a chilled morning sun,
the air is dense and
thick with the loss of
temperature, and
slippery yet not wet
is the pavement and
ground, solid as stone,
holding a layer of
refrozen frost and ice
to crunch under
one's feet ...
Crystals of snow do
show the light white
coloring upon the earth
as the sky slowly
gains more color for
the sunrise sluggishly
makes its way through
the solid skies of the
icy cold dawn to cast
off its weight and rise
to the dome of the heavens,
to offer what little warmth
that it can.
By Robert Stephen Herrick
In the darkness
before the cold dawn,
small crystals melted
then lightly thawed
froze from a watery
mush and slickened
from a pasty texture
into a more solid form
once amorphous ...
Before the light of
a chilled morning sun,
the air is dense and
thick with the loss of
temperature, and
slippery yet not wet
is the pavement and
ground, solid as stone,
holding a layer of
refrozen frost and ice
to crunch under
one's feet ...
Crystals of snow do
show the light white
coloring upon the earth
as the sky slowly
gains more color for
the sunrise sluggishly
makes its way through
the solid skies of the
icy cold dawn to cast
off its weight and rise
to the dome of the heavens,
to offer what little warmth
that it can.