The First Snowfall of Winter
The first snowfall of winter
Singular crystals of water
floating on currents of air
Drifting through time and space
A syllogism drawn on frosted car windows
Green grass turned white
to crackle under feet while walking dogs
Footprints outlining the path
A new beginning shaping itself
into a new reality
Focusing on visions culled from dreams
Creating an environment
tangible to the eye and the senses
Longed for realities realized
as the first snowfall of winter
Drifts across the landscape
permeating the conscious and subconscious
Cutting and pasting happy times
into a scrapbook in the heart
The first snowfall of winter
Paper white and crystal clear
Covering the earth and blanketing the soul
Bruce Levine
Bruce Levine has spent his life as a
writer of fiction and poetry and as a music and theatre professional. A 2019 Pushcart
Prize Poetry nominee, a 2021 Spillwords Press Awards winner, the Featured
Writer in WestWard Quarterly Summer 2021 and his bio is featured in “Who’s
Who of Emerging Writers 2020.” Bruce has over three hundred works published
on over twenty-five on-line journals including Ariel Chart, Spillwords, The
Drabble; in over seventy print books including Poetry Quarterly, Haiku Journal,
Tipton Poetry Journal; Halcyon Days and Founder’s Favourites (on-line and
print) and his shows have been produced in New York and around the country. His
work is dedicated to the loving memory of his late wife, Lydia Franklin. A native
Manhattanite, Bruce now lives and writes in Maine. Visit him at www.brucelevine.com