And s(n)o(w) it falls
Orla Cowan
rooftops and windowsills shoulder with
quiet acquiescence the flaky pinpricks
of icy ashes – and (look!) there is
an equal, fickle coating of the pavement –
nonetheless with a movement
decisive, deliberate, perhaps well-meant
Look, there is more than one captured sense
now the morning’s silence is crystallised
in clear, printed lines from eye to mind –
spiralling, soon-to-fade footfalls left behind.