What a delight!
a travel ban enforced
only by stormy weather - a reminder
of those days when schools were closed
because of snow and we children
released from indoor classrooms
made the proverbial snowmen with coal eyes
and carrot noses
and formed snow angels
flailing out our arms
as if the snow were air
and we were using
our newmade wings to fly
as we lay on our backs
in the thick frosting
with which the weather gods had overnight
coated the earth for miles around
a transformation that revealed the hidden magic
that the world
our childhood world
was made of