Latticed flakes, feather light,

Floated like eider down

And lightly lingered

Upon eyelashes aflutter,

Cheeks aglow and nosetips in freeze.

Amid the snowy florets

In the winter hush,

My footfalls muffled

In the downy pavement.

I walked with upturned face

Where crystalline blooms,

In whispering touches,

Winked and vanished.

In candy sugar ice,

The twigs and branches

Gleamed in fairy luster

In the charmed wood

Where the pathway crossed.

Winter’s brittle splendor,

In ethereal sheen,

Wafted me to enchantment

Aloft myriad graces

Into intimate magic, and,

Alas, a world of transience.