by Carl Santoro
From my large kitchen window, as I slowly raised the blinds, I watched as at the foot of my driveway, somewhere behind the high snowy mounds, the pink dusk sky suddenly became filled with an arched fountain of snow-sprays - shooting out from behind, high above and suddenly combining - twirling, mixing, forming new colorful crystalline bonds. Merging to the thunderous sounds of engines, rump-a-rump, bat-a-tat, barumpabumbum, smashing, a crystal chandelier-like shattering, sprinkles of diamonds, sparkling, spitting, stretching, spinning, rolling, enlarging, reducing, spraying, glistening, dissipating, liquifying, glowing, drenched with the blue of moon beams and the deepening red of the sleepy lingering sun. Having a glorious riot of play.
And then as readily as they had merged, this spontaneous fountain descended to the earth below. Gone forever.
Then I could hear the creators of this dusk-lit shower, two snow-blowers, laugh as they finished crossing by each other. I watched for more. The engines roar became faint. The night was quiet. Nothing left to see, I slowly lowered the blinds and could feel the wide smile on my face refuse to lower with them.
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Well, how lovely is this? You've taken a rather mundane occurrence and filled it with wonder. Love how the prose moves to match the blowing snow, the bursting verbs and onomatopoeia. And a great title. Like this a lot, Carl.
Kathy again. Must remember to try to get my comments in before she does. I love all of this, and the tag is perfect. *****
Snowonderful. Bet it would make a great read too with that expansive verb list.
Having endured my share of snow, I can relate.*
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This is definitely a riot of play. Love all this alliteration and the string of verbs. Impressive, indeed. "*"
After all this "*&^ing snow, this is a delight.