Snow?

It seems this gauze of snow hardly counts, over a month into winter.  Still... it*s pretty, such as it is.  Snow will always signify winter to this Minnesota girl.

Finally

A gauze of snow,

A beginning for a season

Which began over a month ago,

By the length of light,

By days and nights,

A gauze of snow to show:

Yes

This is winter.

I wait for the cardinals

The starlings

To show off

Against the white gauze

Backdrop.

I wonder

If it will last.