March in its mercurial mood...

March and the call of winter...

trees barren of leaves

budding green in a blanket of snow

sun brilliant in the lambent sky

the calm of a cold cold winter day

March being March in its mercurial mood

holds to the call of winter

summoned be the cold, high winds, and snow angels

crystals of light to come forth in winter’s mood

and so the storm before the gateway to spring.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York