In Snow

With the window sitting with you
And with glass, with air to see with
There I came with you to be with
Asking if and ever were

And with snow, with wet and moving
There we brought the afternoon in
Soon with gin we poured the ache down
Soon we felt the air we moved with
Now with snow and later raining
We went out and moved the walking
And in snow resumed the drifting
Of the past that we'd been talking
I was cold and you were raining
I had stayed while you went leaving
And the life that I was walking
Turned to air, and then went dark

You now mentioned all your leaving
(now that afternoon had left us)
And you rained with need and grieving
For that staring boy you left

I recalled the boy who saw you
As you moved through girl, through bleeding
And I mentioned movements boyward
Where in snow we'd lain all needing

We lie down, within this window
And in snow, in rain and moving
We give back our time it's longing
Over field and snow and leaving