A Poem For Saturday

"Blizzard" by William Carlos Williams:

Snow:

years of anger following

hours that float idly down

the blizzard

drifts its weight

deeper and deeper for three days

or sixty years, eh? Then

the sun! a clutter of

yellow and blue flakes

Hairy looking trees stand out

in long alleys

over a wild solitude.

The man turns and there

his solitary track stretched out

upon the world.

(Photo: Afghan men walk near the Darul Aman palace in Kabul on February 16, 2011, on the occasion of Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi, the birthday of Prophet Muhammad. The Prophet Mohammed was born in the Saudi Arabian city of Mecca on the 12th day of Rabi-ul-Awwal 571 A.D. By Dmitry Kostyukov/AFP/Getty Images)