Poetry Revisited: Snow Flakes

Photo: Milena B.

(first published 1945) 

I counted till they danced so
Their slippers leaped the town,
And then I took a pencil
To note the rebels down.
And then they grew so jolly
I did resign the prig,
And ten of my once stately toes
Are marshalled for a jig!

                         Emily Dickinson
                           (1830-1886)