Winter

Vanessa Hu

first snowfalls: 
those are matters 
of mortal beings

oh, how the kitty 
whirls ’n twirls in dance 
amongst the drifting leaves

in pearls of hail 
perhaps a nightjar 
returns to the moon

*Nightjars are small, 
nocturnal or crepuscular (twilight) birds;
the gray nightjar is particular to East Asia.