I Snowman

What is your first memory of snow?
Do you remember?

Snow, white paper.

Resetting the seasons
at the start of the year.
A frog leaps, frozen.
Time leaps, frozen.

Fistfulls of crisp crystals
mouthfulls of white tea
warm liquid amidst the cold glass of winter

My arms are wood
my soul is ice.
My tears are frozen.
My mind is made from snow.

White tea, warm liquid,
frozen mouthfulls.
Crystals, crisp.

Fistfulls of time, frozen.
A frog leaps.
Spring reverses, shoots contract.
Resetting the seasons.

Snow, white paper.

What is your first memory of snow?
Do you remember?

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