Snow Covers All
Five inches fell last night
    snow covers cars
        house
             dog house
                  barn
                      wheelbarrows
grasses,
      trees
driveway and sidewalk--everything it seems
has come to a cold white halt.
Then a bird flies by
or Hallie bounds down the drive
after an animal we never saw.
     Or  mouse tracks
or deer tracks
indicate
          that all is not as quiet
                                         as it seems.
God's world keeps moving
even when Jeanine and I
are holed up inside
                           waiting for a warmer
                                                         more hospitable day