Voices: Smoke and Snow

Smoke of a thousand candles

shade its walls, a rising incense,

sweet offering rising, glimmering

hope, giving warmth. Voices

rise as one voice from one body,

sweet offering of choral incense.

Outside, snow falls, whitened

rain of jacketed insulation

offering song across the earth.

Photograph by Sylwia Mazurek via Public Domain Pictures. Used with permission.