Snow Business
an Arctic cold front
Amazon trucks stuck
down snow-packed side roads
but that was 2022
this year
the winter is mild
that low January sun
illuminating the dust under the sofa
and that kid’s toy from Christmas
that no one could find.
south of the border
the president is obsessed with Greenland
there’s no business like snow business
he says
but Greenland
where all the brass monkeys sing soprano
and Ice has a different meaning
is a long, long way from Mar-A-Lago
Over at dverse the prompt is “snow”.
Stopdraggingthepanda 
Your poem strikes a chord .. deeply. Feels like winter shrinking and expanding together from the snow-packed roads to the dust you can see in January’s sunlight. Politics are anchored beautifully … brilliant work.
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Thank you Helen! Much appreciated!
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Maybe he should move to Greenland for awhile and cool his jets!! :>) Nice work, Jim.
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Thank you , Much appreciated..JIM
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You are welcome!
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Great take on the prompt, Jim. The way things are going, in the UK we might not be using Amazon or seeing their trucks, even ‘stuck down snow-packed side roads’, the orange one has put paid to that with his Greenland obsession. I can’t see him spending any time there, it is indeed a ‘long, long way from Mar-A-Lago’. There must be a way to grab him and dump him in the most remote part of Greenland and see how he likes it.
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Now there’s a plan!
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It is all about running the world like it’s real-estate…. If he get Greenland, Canada will be next…. he only cares about resources not people.
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A very good point Bjorn!
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Love the humor, including there’s no business like snow business — well done!
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Thank you!
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Ha – love the title and so appropriate as current events unravel. He wouldn’t spend time there, where would he golf at tax payers expense?
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True indeed! JIM
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Three more years of the horror show out of Washington, snow or no snow.
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A horror show indeed, I keep waiting for it to implode!
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He has no idea…(K)
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Or a lot of bad ones!
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It’s hard to tell.
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Great poem Jim!
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Thanks Kim!
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“but Greenlandwhere all the brass monkeys sing sopranoand Ice has a different meaningis a long, long way from Mar-A-Lago”
Brilliant work, Jim!
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That low sun annoys me in the mornings before I go to work but luckily I’ve forgotten about the dust, now invisible, when I get home again!Now I have the Beastie Boys in my head “You put your left leg down, your right leg up…”Nicely written 👏
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