Nor'easter


They waded out on tip-toe
elbows out, as if into a rising
icy sea.

And along the plowed driveway
beneath the evergreens' patient sag
piles of snow reached the brother's belt
and the girl's chest
and stones caught up
in the drifts
got stuck

here and there
sometimes in crooked pairs
like God's eyes
watching their every move.