Saturday, February 5, 2011

Footfalls



One by one we emerged
Through doorways, alleyways, a mangled fence,
Soldiers of snow bearing shovels
With glints of metal in our eyes.

We worked by daylight
In a landscape without end,
In a silence that has not been marred
By a rivulet of mud.

And when evening came,
And the tunnels hewn,
We could again hear
Our footfalls in the snow.

2 comments:

Rebekah said...

Smiling both with pleasure at the photo and memories of those gleams of metal :)

dW said...

And the twinge of regret mixed with joy when the neighbor came by whose gleam of metal includes a noisy smelly powerful motor...;-)