Vanilla Breast Hills

Once upon a field of snow:

White intoxication lit her face

     lanterns leaving patterns

     in the harboring snow

     sorrowful piles of gloom

Alabaster white hands

     blend in incandescent glow

     as booted feet sink

     into powdery quick sand

Lemon yellow winter sun

     echoed on sallow skin

     airborne snowflakes

     of butterfly flutters

Knotted and pleated mounds

     oyster gray clouds

     whipped snow

     in froth of dreams

Sparse windblown tree soldiers

     march to refuge

     snowdrifts plodding

     single file down hills

Howls of sleeting whiteness

     form blankets

     shrouding white hot pain

     veiled gauzy curtains

Fields of crystal diamonds

     adorn her throat

     wind breathing its last

     on vanilla breast hills.