Snow #108

All snow is, of course, not alike.  This is snow hitherto unknown.  I name it 108... just because.  I am at work figuring my 11:15 client will not show.  Somehow what matters is that I am here, in my office, prepared for normal things, even if normal things do not come to pass.  I forgot my 2013 calendar at home, though my January 2014 schedule is in it.  I have my 2014 calendar in hand.  It is filled with blank pages, white as driven snow, though I do not know exactly what driven snow looks like.  Perhaps it is snow #109.

Everyone agrees

This is not

Wet

Heart attack snow,

But fluff and drift

Almost soap flake snow.

Snow numbered

108

Of the 107 kinds of snow.

It was never recorded

Before.

This snow deserves its own

Particular name.

The sun showed briefly

Through the clouds

At North Avenue

And Glen Ellyn Road.

Snow 108 drifted across

The pale disk

Named itself

New

Completely new.

Still it falls.