The First Snow
by Joy Rollins, Class of 2020
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer Is ready to step up again this year, and so are these musicians.
December 6, 2021
The First Snow (2019)
by Joy Rollins, Class of 2020
It was cold
Too cold
Too cold for anything
Two layers
Three layers
It wasn’t enough
It was never quite enough
But despite the cold
Despite the cold
It never snowed
The ground lay bare
And dead
And cold
The wind stung
The wind bit
The wind put the bare branches of the trees into a kind of twisted dance
All of them dead
All of them cold
But then
One cold day
It wasn’t as cold
The wind slowed
The trees stilled
And from the clouds came a flurry of white flakes
They lazily drifted down into a big fluffy pile
Doors opened
Children ran out into the snow
It was still cold
But it wasn’t as cold anymore