Tonight I fell asleep
Listening to the wind lend
Voice to the leaves
Watching the snow dress
The trees & strip earth of all sound
For the first time I felt what it meant
To belong
Holding you & your mother from behind
Like another backbone just in case
While we were resting
The world continued
Snow swelled the garden
& you grew that one extra cell
Just enough of a tickle
To wake your mother—She gasped
I smiled but kept my eyes closed
So forever I could remember this moment
A dream dressed in snow