Snow

Interesting rejoinder. I'm still not convinced "accretions" is a wrong choice of word. There's often an unconscious weaving of vowel-music - in this instance "accretion/beneath/belief" is a sound-thread in the way that "snows/slow/goes" also inter-weaves.

Regarding the charge of "abstraction" - yes, I've introduced an idea; that's because I'm not interested in snow per se. I hijack the natural phenomenon of snow falling, causing everything to "concur", become a blanket uniformity; while the previous certainty of features in the landscape prior to the cover-up becomes a metaphor for lost certainty/belief in general.

I may be overly fanciful with the notion - but there it is. There's certainly some truth to the idea that many of us lose our certainties/beliefs as we age and conform into the accepted blanket norms of societal roles....

This isn't really a poem about snow (you may have gathered by now!)...

I'll check out that reference - thanks for the debate!

Rgds., Alan.