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[righteousbabe]

I work at the new 1st Mariner Tower in Canton, and snow looks a whole lot different from up here :-) Just a quick little piece, but it's the first thing I've written in weeks.


From the 15th floor snow flurries
seem like static on an epic TV screen.
Flakes flutter and collide,
fighting for their perfect flight
to earth. Some are blown onto
the window sill, slowly sizzle into
nothing but a temporary dark spot,
others are carried up into the sky by
gusts of Chesapeake wind.
Some land on cold car tops
and Canton roof decks,
others bring color to chilly cheeks.
Soon the entire Baltimore landscape
is lightly sprinkled white.

Coworkers smile and watch our
first winter scene. I roll my eyes
and curse the creeping cars
I will encounter on the drive home.

[theirishsea]

Hopefully this will be the start of another long run of poems.

The 15th floor is a neat place to view the world---yeah, you et he view everyday & it is like the taste of gum---you llose it the more you chew but every once in awhile you have to take your habitual way of seeing off ---like sunglasses---and see all the bright colors & shapes that are before you.  (okay, I'm waxing poetic---but you know what I mean----I think the 15th floor can be a neat place unless the elevator is out of commission---but then you get some exercise---if it doesn't kill ya)

[saw]

good observations, I like "static on an epic tv screen."