Winter in the City

By Rita H. Chen

 

Glittering dust covering steel banisters,

Thick carpets blanketing front yards,

Dangling icicles lining spindly branches,

Stillness in the black pre-dawn

 

 

Thick tires across cracked pavement,

Salt crystals dissolving hidden ice,

Metal shovels scraping asphalt driveways,

Awakening under the blue-grey sky

 

 

Booted footsteps pounding cleared stairs,

Snow angels imprinting covered earth,

Gloved hands brushing clinging snow,

Life with the golden sun

 

Rita’s Musings: A poem that was first inspired by the sounds of snow trucks moving along the streets one January morning, I was hoping to capture the beauty of winter with these words.