she placed snowshoes on the mountain,
a shine to the lips of heaven
in a musical crunching of white
with peek-a-boo pine cones and twigs
it was in moments like this she felt it,
breathed it
when douglas firs and
lodgepole pines
held a shimmering of frost
and a barn owl’s low hoot
gave her a sense of mulled cider
when the fire is just right
and so is the world
Copyright 2012 Jennifer Wagner