Buried Cleveland

snow castles.

Waiting for the end

of March storms

blown in

swirling

first

around a low

pressure

breeding

snow

then prickly pellets

of sleet

from a nor easter.

Buried Cleveland

snow castles.

Waiting for

the twist

to the northwest

winds

driving

at 30 to 40 Ks

per hour

dumping

two feet or more,

a really big blow.

Buried Cleveland

snow castles.

Waiting for

the shift

to the northwest

in a street lit

lull

of quiet

early Murray Hill

Friday night

eye

of a low.

Buried Cleveland

snow castles.

Waiting for

seeds of a

cold rain and a foot

of snow in Texarkana,

fifteen twisters

two dead

past the Florida panhandle

whipping up a

blizzard

blanketing

Ohio's

Mohican hills.

Malibar farms

shores of Lake Erie

shallows

that swallowed

the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Buried Cleveland

snow castles.

Waiting for

cars,

bars,

streets,

and

teahouses

to uncover,

and

melt in false spring.