FUGITIVE LANDSCAPE

Snow falls in enormous flakes, each bigger than the invisible moon.

In twenty-seven rectangles, four trees climb a blue hill; beyond, the mountains rise green.

Snow falls from blue through gray, mirrored once, once turned over.

It has been shown that the human brain can get used to anything: eyeglasses that reverse

or invert the world, nearly any loss. It has been proven that

we do not perceive the world as it is. That must be so, since the moon

could never be so small, since hills are never so blue. It must be so

if four trees can climb a blue hill twenty-seven ways.