There's a patch of old snow in a corner
That I should have guessed
Was a blow-away paper the rain
Had brought to rest.
It is speckled with grime as if
Small print overspread it,
The news of a day I've forgotten —
If I ever read it.
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A corner of a fenceline or building creating a colder, shadded space. The tailend of winter snow, an endangerd species, small, shabby, corrupted by the sooty New England air polution, waiting to die out. We are as unaware of its reality and passing as qwe are of yesterday's forgotten news. -
Another eye-opener from Frost.
In these days of slushy snow and smokeless zones I had almost forgotten the look of grime on fresh, crisp snow. In retrospect I see now that it did indeed look like old-papers.
Will that simile ever occur again? -
GOOD
THE SURPRISES WE FIND WHEN THE SNOW MELTS. HE DESICRIBED SOMETHING SO SIMPLE
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