"It sifts from Leaden Sieves" by Emily Dickinson

It sifts from Leaden Sieves -

It powers all the Wood -

It fills with Alabaster Wool

The Wrinkles of the Road -

It scatters like the Birds -

Condenses like a Flock -

Like Juggler’s Figures situates

Upon a baseless Arc -

It traverses yet halts -

Disperses as it stays -

Then curls itself in Capricorn -

Denying that it was -

Source of the text – The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition, edited by Ralph W. Franklin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998, p. 129.

Bourguignomicon: Snow litany. The white stuff assumes a rich presence with 3 active verbs each in stanzas 1 & 2 and paradoxically-paired verbs in the third.