First snow
When the first snow of the year descends
it brings back a sense of innocence.
A new freshness sweeps land and sky
washing the air, sweetening the eye,
as if permission to start again is found,
as if heaven's truth somehow came down
when the soft white newness covers all
when the first snow of the year falls.
Saghatel Haratounian
translated by Diana Der-Hovanessian