Skeena Connector - Andrew Barham

Sit back and enjoy the ride:
I love it when it's really cold outside
And the blue sky is clear and bright
All the snow everywhere pure and white
Glittering like tiny diamonds in the sunlight
Every tiny branch and stem
Covered in crystalline gems
Sparkling and gleaming clear
Distant mountains looming near
As though I could touch them through the frozen air
Until we drop down off this moraine
Coasting into the valley again
Accelerating as over the bridge we go
Into the river's valley below
Past crags and trees etched with snow;
On either side the forest so green
Covers the river's frozen flood-plain
Flanked by mountains clothed in white;
Through the window I behold these sights
And once again, everything feels just right.

Andrew Barham