Winter in Buffalo

[Random images transliterated into rhyme
Splatter, like midgets, on the windshield of an eye,
An observant, memorizing, recollecting eye.]

Snow -
Falling muffled, like a thick, plush curtain
Or frail, in a walled alcove, like rain
Snowflakes -
Jubilantly whirling around streetlights
A swarm of middle-aged, wayward locusts
Snow dust -
Rippling, like wind-borne mist on asphalt
Interplay of its waves, paused to a halt
between random tracks of dogs, men and rust...

In a purple twilight land,
Where darkness descends at tea-time
Like a flooded, impatient waterfall
on a beach of dark white sand.

Dec 7th & 11th, 2010.