haiku

after far too longdiscovering life's secret:more black pepper

Die Hard 2McClane stabs Baker through the eye--icicle

Amish in buggiesclip-clopping toward Oakfield --last Sunday of the year

sitting not thinkingno sounds outside my ownzero obligations

snow cannot decideto stay or go -- so it staysand goes and stays and ...

freshly cut maplepopping and smoking but warm --keeping us alive

wife's office partyopen bar, too much bourbon --"My name is Steven..."

loving familythree generations --resilience

red squirrel dartsover the snow to the eastern pinepauses halfway up

wind bell predicts stormstrees bow slightly dropping snowboiler heats its pipes

lying in the snowseemingly warm and content --Aroostook bison

light becomes darkyet my day continuesartificially

idyllic winterat once spoiled and enhanced --the roar of snowplows

postcard-perfect scene --freeing its inhabitantsrequires a snowplow

my world is nestledunder a thick white blanket --i hear snowblowers

snow devils danceone by one in the side yardtrees are sticks

nature finds balancewhile humans search for fairness --unnatural fairness

wildflower seedshand-sown before the first snowcold hardening

snow plow rumbles pastsun glints off fallen crystalsi see my breath

distant train hornmeteor shoots left to right --rural midnight