The “Coal-Mouse Snowflake” Poem by Kurt Kauter. “Tell me the weight of a snowflake,’ a coal-mouse asked a wild dove. ‘Nothing more than nothing,’ was the answer. ‘In that case, I must tell you a marvelous story,’ the coal-mouse said. ‘I sat on a branch of a fir, close to its trunk, when it began to snow. Not heavily, not in a giant blizzard, no, just like in a dream, without any violence. Since I didn’t have anything better to do, I counted the snowflakes settling on the twigs and needles of my