chagall backdrop

One minute I’m walking
warm through the field
and the next
it begins to snow

Flaked sandy drop
so steady

How quickly
it gets
knee-high

I trudge
through dark
gray cotton
light

right
before heavy
wet flakes
consume me

On my back laughing merrily
my heart pumping wildly
I drink in the fall from the sky
through a mouthful of stars

© Chagall, 2013