First Snow

I am sorry

the first snow

has come too suddenly

caught me unaware

released me

to some skyless

wintered

place

behind the snow

the angered wind darkly violet

arrives violently enough

flails away at my shaking pines

raging flakes quaking leaves

crazed robins

the air is alive dying

the ground rattling

in the throes

of dusting

snow

jppestana december 2, 2016