More White
By Cheryl Mousseau

Rectangular grids
Fine screen mesh
Separating warmth and comfort
From ice cold white and grey

Remnants of Christmas

Twisted and tangled atop sleeping bushes
Snow silently inching higher up barren sticks
In hopes of blanketing the miniature lights

The brick walkway invisible
Just white, more white, more white.
Lines punctuating a dismal scene
Post and rail fencing divides
But adds no more color
Grey and white, grey and white
The distant pond lies hidden
Beneath more white, more white, more white
Outlined by the bramble and brush at water’s edge.

Two evergreens tower
Trying to make a statement
Against the bleak landscape
Only managing darker grey
Sitting vacant, the white farmhouse
As ghostly on the outside as the inside
Snow keeps coming
More white, MORE white, MORE WHITE
With just a little grey.