Snow on the
Hills
The scant
snow’s an afterthought,
no more: the
storm
at midnight
impatient
to shrug off
this place
and reach
higher ground.
Still it
blesses us briefly
at sunrise—
a mauve and
vermilion gauze
of light,
shimmering
with the
urgency of
all things
never meant to
last.
Don Thompson
Don Thompson has been writing about the San Joaquin Valley for over fifty years, including a dozen or so books and chapbooks, most recently, A San Joaquin Almanac (Main Street Rag). The Art of Stone Axes, a collection of quatrains, some of which appeared originally in Ariel Chart, will be released this summer from Broadstone Books. For more info and links to publishers, visit his website at www.don-e-thompson.com.
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