Florida Snow

Florida Snow

Stay just this far
back and squint
and see the soft
cottony white clinging
to the tall grass
and know this
moment is the closest
you will get to snow,
the dusting that
the rest of world ignores,
as mundane and hardly worth
the time,
but that, for just this moment,
makes you breathe
a little more deeply
and makes you hunger
for winter
and the joy and thanksgiving
those days bring.