I am preoccupied with faith, its dangers and its solace, as this snow falls, a drift of fist-sized flakes that sift from a dim sky, then change to sleetish rain. An hour, I'm told, for the average flake to fall. This stone is filled with galaxies; this child is held with love. This earth is baptized, not by god, but by neutrinos. In dreams I am stalked by elephants and dragons. I put my hand to the wild boar's neck. I feel its pulse, its coarse fur. Its eye on me. -- ~ SB =^..^= http://www.sbpoet.com