Sunrise 3/2/24

Winter Weather Advisory

Photos by Jonathan Potter ⓒ 2024

Snow in March is like trochaics falling,
Falling down when what you want are iambs
Lifting up your head with songbirds calling.

Nature has these trochees up its galling
Deathstar sleeves to make us mutter god-damns.
Snow in March is like trochaics falling:

Scattered snowflakes making us start bawling,
Gray skies filling everybody's webcams,
Even ones that should show songbirds calling. 

Where is Shakespeare when we need some scrawling
In iambics breaking up the logjams
Caused by snow in March like trochees falling?

Where's the sun upon the skyline trawling
With its net of many-colored whim-whams
Lifting up your head with songbirds calling?

Onward Christian soldiers and snowballing
Children donning snow pants over jam jams.
Sing this: "Snow is like trochaics falling,"
Lifting up your heads like songbirds calling!

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