Best-Loved Spot - Snowblink

WINTER ROARS HER BULLY-YELL TILL HER SKY FILLS UP DARK AS A WHALE

WHERE WOLF HAD WALKED AS DID MEN, THE TRACKS THEIR PAW AND FOOT DID PEN

OH OH OH OH OH NOW JUST LOOKS LIKE A ROAD AGAIN

WINTER FROZE HER FAVORITE WELL THEN BOARDED UP WITH TIMBER FELLED

HER FAVORITE WELL, HER BEST-LOVED SPOT THAT MILKED WHAT MOST HAD QUICK FORGOT--

OH OH OH OH OH

WHAT ONCE WAS BRIGHT AS SUN’S LAPEL AND WOKE US EVERY NIGHT TO TELL

US WHAT BEFALLS OUR SLEEPING SELVES NOW ARRIVES LIKE THE YEAR’S FIRST SNOW:

APOLOGETIC UNDER TOE, FALLS DOWN DUMB, THEN MELTS RIGHT OFF

GONE GONE GONE GONE AND FORGOT GONE GONE AND FORGOT

GONE AND FORGOT GONE, HER BEST-LOVED SPOT

WINTER HOARDS HER LITTLE BIRDS IN SHIVERING UNSPEAKING HERDS

THEIR BONES SO PETITE AND POLITE FORM FISTS ROUND FIG-SIZED HEARTS ---OH OH OH

OH OH

LIKE WARM CINDERS TUMBLING UPWARDS

OH WINTER RANG HER BULLY BELL AND FULLMOON’S FACE FELL QUIET AND PALE

AS A DOUBLOON BURIED IN BACKYARD with the BONES and the RAIN while the

SMOKESTACKS RAISED

THEIR HALF-MILE FLAGS AT HALF MAST TILL ALL THE ICE CRACKED

THEN ALL the WELL-WISHING COINS FLEW UP IN A BRIGHT COPPER-NICKEL GEYSER

TO REMIND HER WHAT WAS

UP IN A BRIGHT COPPER-NICKEL GEYSER

The WELL-WISHING COINS

RANG HER BULLY BELL

AND WOKE US EVERY NIGHT TO TELL

US HOW OUR SLEEPING SELVES ARRIVE

AT OUR FAVORITE WELL, OUR BEST-LOVED SPOT

NOW GONE

GONE GONE GONE AND FORGOT

GONE GONE AND FORGOT

GONE AND FORGOT