Winter Art

Ever changing winter art on windows.

Your icy deliciousness
flavored by minerals spills
over mountainsides in free fall scenes.

You are noticed, your tendrils gradually

engulf tree limbs and trunks.
When the sun rises, it is to silent beauty;
a field of diamonds.

I see glistening of grass stalks,

icicles hang from rooftops
and cars, decorating them like holiday
ornaments.

Your icy coldness

takes my breath away. I am not naïve,
these gorgeous icy days
are treacherous, even deadly. 

I let the beauty entice from afar but I know…
a wrong step, a little too fast
on black iced road could mean
injury or worse. I try not to let my
guard down, for it is then you show your
true composition and break me like an egg.