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Snow

by Susan Dane Setin

lamplight on snowy nightThere is something strange about snow.
And how the space between
the large wet flakes
gets filled in with Paris.
At two a.m. I open the shutters
and see that my New York street—
blanketed in sleep and white gossamer—
has been transformed—
into a French Impressionist painting,
and for the first time,
caught between the snow dots
of a George Seurat, or
the ardent swirls of Van Gogh,
the flurry of Monet,
it all makes sense at last:
Things were never supposed to be
more clear than this.
If you step in close
everything disappears
except the color and the stroke.
Pull back, and there is
a perfect street, snow deep,
without a step or print.
And one single amber street lamp,
in the blue gray white mist,
lit.

Copyright © 2000 Susan Dane Setin • All rights reserved.

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