Each house, each fence, bough, post & letter box

has its chapeau or topiary of snow,
a cap, a stack whose mosaic interlocks

until it’s doffed. 
Icing sugar, talc-like powder, linen perfect, doona-esque,

foot-hold test, temple finial, gravestone grace note; snow.
Tree pillow, roof fondant, template for tracks,

acoustic trap, bringer out of burlap,
under-foot squeak, eave dropper, candidate for the corduroy rake,

light amplifier, sight stealer, world white-washer,
detail obliterator, hoar frost generator, slope groomer,

light’s diffuse deflector to all white, reflective extender of the last light.
Scenic smoother, road block, ground falsifier, pond slurry-er,

airborne sip, persimmon decorator, graphic illustrator,
lane hobo, mono-chromaticist, bough breaker,

ice-maker, false delineator, ditch obfuscator.
Wind-drift traveller, car roof hitcher, beard starch

and hair stiffener, boot clog and glove coagulant. 
Cabbage coat, leek mattress, cold store,

shovel chore, wonder maker, gumboot infiltrator.
Toboggan-izer, foot freezer, cable garland,

ghost maker, cloud sown once-and-will-be water,
road greaser, sound cease-er, shrub shroud,

storm maker, fractal faction, self-assembler,
fine flurry-ist, architect of avalanche, blizzard grist,

yuki, neve, neige, nieve, schnee, snow.