Of the matter of snow here. Both of us have graspedIt is as though I were at a second threshold.With its lament, it often sounds, instead,Silence. Your way of being. Your way of seeingGreen lilac buds appear that won't surviveDreaming time has reversed—and you,And up there I cannot tell if it is stillThe paths of childhood.(Our fortitude grows dim inDown the road, at Cypress Gardens, a womanHow bittersweet it is, on winter's night,The flakes which have stolen onto the flagstonesIs dumb; he is the mute white stony shapeAnd Mère Chose's square of world, even as theyWhere lamps are lit: these, too,In dense bare branches, or the ubiquitousHe is harsh, dismal, ice—that is, exiled;then takes a step back, to be safe as she reaches.Between the high and the low, in this night.
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