Fog

a tritina

Recent morning photo in the work parking lot after a drive in heavy fog.

This time, between winter and spring, 
when snow becomes vapor and ice,
the warmer air brings on the fog.

This veil of seclusion, the fog,
is donned by the vanquishing spring
while rotting remains of the ice.

Without winter’s carcass of ice,
its spirit will lurk in the fog,
to haunt and to taunt into spring!

But spring smashes ice, conquers fog!

No fog today, and the buds are coming out!

A tritina is a ten-line poem composed of three tercets and an envoi final line. There is no rhyme scheme, set meter or syllable requirement, but the end words rotate in each tercet: ABC, CAB, BCA. The envoi line uses all three words in the original order, ABC. I used eight syllables. Consider a tritina a cousin of the sestina.