For those of you who are not enjoying our beautiful weather in New Orleans....

Snow glistening off of icicle gutters

Drip, drip, drip

One splash at a time

Patiently thawing out

Melting off

Washing away

Our grievances

Our little petinesses

Wait, wait, wait

Why rip off the defrosting?

Hurry the ever slow, yet, steady progress?

32 ° rising

Ice runs off steep roofs

Slowing cautiously over frozen gutters

Mother cries for her earth

Hidden beneath sparkling blankets

Inch-by-inch knitted and pearled

Stitches of humanities offenses

She covers

Rest, reflect, reinvent yourselves

Black berries unpowered

Dis connect from your blurry visions

An avalanche of love

Covers the roof tops

Cascades down the gutters

And slowly dissolves beneath our sore eyes

Filled with the blue screens

And I touches

Look up.. look away

Pray, hope, Believe

2/12/10 snow days 

Rosalynn Moore