Night closes in,
as winter settles down.
All cozy creatures sleep
beneath the frozen ground
or in the hollow of a tree,
in a pocket, or a knee
of fallen trunk or twisted arm
without a thought to care or harm.
So let us prepare, for when, we do not know,
might winter settle down
to sunless, endless snow?
Dabrowski retired in January 2007 after 33 years on the railroad, 26 of which were in passenger service, under N.J. Transit since 1983.
