oh, January snow, how you fall, dry & light all morning & most of the afternoon, as if a being — intelligent & rational — ran the show not that such a being exists, no, snow’s from a rulebook humans are ever learning to read these days they claim to “know” about gravity pressure, temperature & yes, the ion game — intermolecular bonds ergo, voila, snow yet (I’m licking my paw) they can’t actually see electron pairs bond (whisker twitch) though certain 21st-century wunderkind skilled in microscopy claim to see them — but why go on about science? I’d rather see a mouse running on snow