Winter Beauty

The snow has come.

Some would say with

a fury,

           but it's winter beauty

in the only way it makes

sense -- the cold, the snow,

the wind, the fact of being

basically snowed in simply

the naked beauty

of winter.

                Eggs, bacon, 

potatoes, onions, toast,

hot coffee

                complete this

winter morning scene,

this winter grace,

this winter danger -

                                 not one

without the other.

-Byron Hoot