A Patch of Old Snow

There's a patch of old snow in a corner
     That I should have guessed
Was a blow-away paper the rain
     Had brought to rest.

It is speckled with grime as if
     Small print overspread it,
The news of a day I’ve forgotten—
     If I ever read it.

 

Credit

This poem is in the public domain. 

About this Poem

From Mountain Interval ​(Henry Holt, 1916)