Where's the snow? Where's the snow?

So far in central Arkansas on the backside of January, the snow has failed to materialize. Dot has a small flag on her porch and I have a door mat, both with the same message, "Let It Snow."
The next best thing is to remember previous years via haiku written during the times it DID snow.

(2006)
thirty degrees
only the paperman's tracks
in the ice and snow
~~~

(All the following, 2010)
no children
in the neighborhood
to build snowpeople
so the 40-year-olds
are left to do it (Tanka)
~~~

for the first time
in all the years I've lived here:
a fast-moving snow plow
~~~

to the mailbox
for the second time ... my first
snowprints are buried
~~~

yesterday's soft snow
crunchy after night temps
in the low twenties
~~~

snow still on the ground
inside, four daffodils
forced into bloom
~~~

my gloved hands
forcing four inches of snow
off the windshield
~~~

gunning over clods
the snow plow left
in my driveway
~~~
c 2012 by Pat Laster dba lovepat press