Appearances

Moonlight hits

the roof, becomes

a fall of snow.

The raccoon climbing

the slant slate by slate,

is a striped polar bear.

And the gray mouse

shimmying up the vine

is an albino lion.

But the snowy owl,

eyes sharp, claws

poised, is white.

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