by Kevin T McEneaney
A slurry, sloppy subject to speak of.
In French: niege fondue, snow fondue,
charmingly comic as cuisine comment.
English appropriates the world from Welsh
since they had no previous world for it.
Wales hospitably provides messy slush.
Anglo-Saxons arrived as merc soldiers
protecting eastern coastline from pirates.
Having come from Denmark, they brought with them
Danish words for weather: rain, sleet, breeze, cold.
Slush is comic as well as repulsive,
a momentary annoyance in life,
more fascinating to a younger child,
not worth a sage remark from an adult.