More Snow

is the jagged icicles dripping by day and freezing by night
looming longer and longer until they either fall and shatter
into a thousand fragments or evaporate like holy disembodied souls


is the aching backs of neighbors who couldn't wait for the snow
plows to arrive exactly one week too late


is the fractured hip of an elderly man who tried to clean
off his car and run an errand


is the remains of a roof that collapsed on a new $600,000 fire truck
that exploded and engulfed the rest of the station in its wake


is the blood stains left as fateful evidence on an icy city sidewalk


is the criminal and the justice