dust of snow


The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree

Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.
Robert Frost

We have the barest skim of snow on the ground here. I am wishing for more but the skies are blue.

Ito Sozan: Crows Flying in Snow. Woodblock print, c. 1925. At The Boston Art Club.