April Snowfall

It begins in March.

Whirls of wispy white behind the window,

Delicate paper-thin pear blossom petals

Drift and scatter across patio furniture

As sugar-fine snowflakes had in January.

Then

like a blizzard

April explodes.

Drifts of dazzling white

Mound on the roadside, blanket trees and shrubs

In understated elegance--dogwood, azalea--

Thick as the snows of Michigan winters.

My Alabama blizzard.

©2011 R.M. Talbot