As she takes off her winter dress
A gradual undressing
Her pristine blankets draw back
Layer by layer
To reveal here sapphire-blue glacier,
There snippets of summer-green dress
Bedecked with yellow Alpines
And lazy, early bees.
At times dramatic
Avalanchine unrobing
A grand gesture
To shock and awe.
Then back to the slow strip-tease – just that – Hour on hour, day on day, a melting away,
Her rivers begin again to flow.
Myself a speck in folds of ermine
Skiiing where she permits
I marvel at the change in her
Permitted a side seat in the witnessing of
This glorious unrobing.
14th March, 2017
Murren
Beautiful
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