Entering

1.

She enters an archway

with a vaulted ceiling

of white and gold bronze

marble panals soft yellow

light, a door with darkish

glass panes, while in the

middle is a brass handle.

The archway leads into a

garden courtyard with

evergreen shrubbery, little

Japanese ginkgo trees:  a

solid sordid fountain.

2.

Everything is covered with

snow which once started to

melt but now has a thin frozen

crust on the surface from some

place high up above:  the first

light of day drifts downward

like dust.