Some words for the week

another spring snowfall

presses a strange pause

on this place

it’s like we’ve never

had a storm like this

cars sit buried and stuck

people hoard canned goods

and cancel plans

it seems to feel to some

that the sky is falling

and it is but it soon stops

and the shovel helps

to scrape away the remnants

as the highway is clogged

with drifts and bad driving

on my way home from work

I wonder what the foxes do

in four feet of snow

how they cope

when we so barely can

and then I see one

not a minute later

scurry over the snow

without stress or sinking

light as fiery air

up and over the mounds

and back into the woods

and I laugh

for who is meant to be here

who thrives so easily

who struggles

at the slightest slush

who are we up here so high

an ever-growing mess

while the remaining foxes

almost float

Alexander Shalom Joseph is a writer from Gilpin County. He is a published author. For more information and to subscribe to Alexander’s Newsletter go to alexandershalomjoseph.com