Snow Remembered by Carol Jean Vendell Snow is the friendliness of forgetfulness: It hushes the hum of bees; It bleaches the greens of summer branches Into brittle black lines; It sucks the scarlet From an August afternoon Into the infinite crystals Of its supple body; It hides its smile under The long purple shadows of twilight And tells nothing. But as the wind rises to erase The endless footprints, It whispers: "Not you, not you! Take this With you and remember."