April Snow

©pralinanmi
Outside...a blizzard blazes
through the April night...
earlier...in the mouth of the canyon...
coyote pack sat...in a resting spot for humans
while...a short way up...
deer stood about...close to the road...
as if disoriented
by the whiteness...
the previous days' warmth
seems to have fooled
even the four legged...
leaving them unaware...and
unprepared
for the sudden blast from the past...
I think about the eagles
who have returned to their lake
so early......
perhaps on a night
such as this
when the changing
is not yet...quite...complete...
they stay refuged
in the trees...
sheltered by ever green denseness
as they wait for the white of winter
to pass................