the roof is almost

the roof is almost completely covered
with a heavy wet snow- catching
the first rays of sunrise-

burning eyes, softening
snow-----we wake
to find diamonds shining

on the roof, and in the garden
seeming to sigh--yet....no impatience
found in the white frozen mush

and soon, as flowers begin to pop
on the ground, and way up 
in the tips of trees

we hold fast to believing, once again
how hearts of human beings are quick
to forgive, and to get on with it--

this precious stuff of life, leaning
forward--as we catapult off the diving
board of a hard cold winter

into the soft fragrant earth 
of an early spring--softening...
the harshness of everything!

~words & photos~kate lamberg