Oh joy. Oh bliss. A true-blue snow day.
(It's not really yellow snow; it's the light as I tried to catch the millions of pre-dawn sparkles.) And although it is not Friday, here is the perfect snowy poem for you.
"Let other mornings honor the miraculous.
Eternity has festivals enough.
This is the feast of our mortality,
The most mundane and human holiday.
On other days we misinterpret time,
Pretending that we live the present moment.
But can this blur, this smudgy in-between,
This tiny fissure where the future drips
Into the past, this flyspeck we call now
Be our true habitat? The present is
The leaky palm of water that we skim
From the swift, silent river slipping by.
The new year always brings us what we want
Simply by bringing us along—to see
A calendar with every day uncrossed,
A field of snow without a single footprint.
"New Year's" by Dana Gioia, from Interrogations at Noon. © Graywolf Press, 2001.
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