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 Watching the Snow Falling by Raymond A. Foss 
						After getting home
 driving in the gossamer snow
 the dance of the crystals
 falling in the air
 accumulating on the roads
 
 Sitting in my office
 watching the snow falling
 outside my window
 trying to name the way
 in which the flakes fell
 
 Seeming to fall
 like bits of potato flakes
 sifted from about the curtain of the day
 so light while in the air
 but landing, sticky like cotton candy
 that has warmed upon the ground
 
 Beautiful, falling
 constellations of flakes
 like chemical chains,
 all the elements in white
 
 Light flakes but not alone
 falling as individuals
 dancing alone on the descent to earth
 Connected, bits of cut taffeta
 white fabric, frayed edges
 spinning to the ground
 
 
 December 28, 2009
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