When It Snows on The East Coast of America

There is reason to feel cold

and trapped at home There is added work of 

shoveling snow

and layering the children when 

they peskily insist on making

a 

snowman

And then they create a named creature on the front lawn

it has a nose, often carrot like,

and two eyes, made of anything the kids could find in pairs. 

(Once they put two pencils -pointed searing eyes,

then another time, a pair of tennis balls- neon green bedazzled eyes)

The eyes need to look similar.

who knows what all will those two similar eyes see

kids sledding?

snow blowers spraying snow?

yellow school bus stopping to pick up children?

snowmen don't have ears

will they ever hear of Russian soldiers raping Ukrainian women?

or of little children in Yemen dying of hunger?

or of lovers being hacked by lovers into sizes just big enough to fit into refrigerators?

or of missiles lighting up the night sky over IsraelPalestine? One sky, lit up, on fire?

or of the arctic snow melting so fast that the snowman

may drown?

When it snows on the east coast of america 

snowmen

and snowwomen 

and snowchildren

and snowothers 

everywhere 

melt.

#SNOW 

#israel #palestine #india #ukraine #russia #yemen 

#snowmen