Snowfall

water droplets falling from the sky,
disappearing into the darkness
of late night shadows. wind chill
sets in as the droplets turn
from water to tiny snowflakes
drizzling from the clouds
hiding in the frosty
grass on the way down.
tiny snowflakes
gather in clumps of snow
dropping heavier by the minute, down.
down from the black clouds
and meet friends sitting
on concrete pathways and the branches
of towering tall pine trees.
scooped up by mittened
hands, scrunched together into a tight ball
whizzing through the sky
and crashing onto a bright orange knit hat.
hands roll into giant balls and stack
one on another, forming a face and body
of a little snowman out to play
with his blue and green cable knit scarf
and bumpy carrot red nose
and the coal from bad children's stockings,
a line of buttons and wide eyes, watching
the children run in the white,
drifting off into the wave of sterling snow.