Snow Trail

The trail of snow

Winds compacted and white

From our front door

Down the steps

Through the trees

And across the road

And then along the snow-bound way

Behind the campus

Every day I beat the path

Back and forth to my classes

And I mark its gradual shifts and twists

With my unsteady footfalls in the ice

In darkness and cold I make my way

And this trail that I have made

And christianed with my scent

I know not its end nor its beginning

As it winds back and forth

Between the many periods of my life

The Great Wall Revisited

Trails in the Snow

1991-1993