A Winter Apparition

At 8 o'clock one evening I looked through

a front upstairs window

to admire new snow covering the neighbourhood.

At the far end of a narrow strip of garden

beside the driveway

was a small dark figure--

a child, well bundled against cold,

but nonetheless disconcertingly alone.

He knelt right where garden

and sidewalk meet,

and he faced the house,

his hands scrunching snow into balls.

 

Who was he?

At a distance, at night,

a Michelin man of miniature proportions,

a magical creature dropped into the scene

in order to focus my mind,

a gnome of winter's garden.

 

Actually, it was young Freddy

from two doors down

taking a break

from his self-appointed task

of shoveling our walk.

 

 

 

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