The Night of Snows

All is silent
In the night of snows
Hushed
As a bride is hushed
In the moment
Before intimacy
As a groom is hushed
At the consummation.

All is silent
In the night of snows
Still
As a mother is still
With her child
At her breast
As a child is still
At her mother’s cooing.

All is silent
In the night of snows
Wearied
As a man is wearied
At the close of day
As the day is wearied
When the sun falls
Below a horizon of snows.

All is silent
In the night of snows
Sleeping
As the earth sleeps
Blanketed beneath billowing skies
As the sky sleeps
In the hand of God
Silent
In the night of snows.