Winter Blanket

Winter Blanket

The snow is like a blanket that
God spreads across the land,


Where wheat and oats and barley sleep,
Awaiting God's command.

It covers all the pasture fields,
And hides the grasses brown:

It gives the bare, gray willow tree
A clinging, wooly gown.

It wraps around a fencepost tall,
And covers up its head,

Then drifts along the meadow banks

To tuck the creek in bed.

~by Ada L. Wine