Returned to home from fall of snow, door closing fast behind, they rid their gloves and loosened boots then made for high vault room ascending fast the climb of stairs into openness of the space; sky window’s light in dim from ice and snowfall cover, room different in ambiance change as layer by layer, touch of the cold and snow removed into openness of beneath; fair of their skin changed as face in melt-touching of the snow, rouge in rise of inner warmth expressed in found openness of touch and affectioned kiss’ cover; warmth of the room, faint sounds returned sharp and clear, creak of boards in shiftings of weight, breaths building as the sense, restored into love and winter-hold and changing of the innocence.