Mountain Resort

It wasn't the bright, Easter-egg-coloured
April air in the tourist village,
nor the strong-cabled ski-lifts lifting
smiling visitors towards the peaks
of happiness, nor the replicated
squared-off condos crouching on the slopes
left and right (and beyond)
that made the day,

but two does, cleaner than the snow
and quieter than the stars, glimpsed through
a crack in the curtain as they strolled
gingerly across parking-lots, ears pricked
with curiosity, wondering perhaps
about the game these creatures play.