snow dusting of blue

snow dusting of blue distant hills

turns them mysterious blue-heron gray

yesterday’s thick inches and pallid

fog created of my lawn and evergreens

my personal, enclosed, white world

this morning’s dusting brings

the distant blue close ‘round me

promised re-delivery

blue-purple-gray sky delivering

of a multitude of tiny snowflakes

straight down

so many, they form a veil

obliterating my lower field

and only close neighbor

dusting the finally-unladen boughs

of evergreens with first hints again

of the weight of white

bird after bird seeking refuge

at the feeder bowl

i’ll need to fill it yet again soon