with buckled boots dripping

did we pray

for more snow with our knees

on the hard

kneelers

at St. Thomas More,

our wet mittens

on the pews,

with buckled boots

dripping

on the holy floor?

we did. but

the mothers and fathers

beside

us prayed too,

they prayed

for the snow to end,

for the plows

to come through

and for school to begin

again.