Happy Friday!

My chosen poem this week is by the American poet, editor and former literature professor at Central Connecticut State University and City University of Hong Kong and Chairman of the APWT, Dr Ravi Shankar (1975).

Snowfall

Particulate as ash, new year's first snow falls
upon peaked roofs, car hoods, undulant hills,
in imitation of motion that moves the way

static cascades down screens when the cable
zaps out, persistent & granular with a flicker
of legibility that dissipates before it can be

interpolated into any succession of imagery.
One hour stretches sixty minutes into a field
of white flurry: hexagonal lattices of water

molecules that accumulate in drifts too soon
strewn with sand, hewn into browning
mounds by plow blade, left to turn to slush.

Ravi Shankar

Happy Reading

Etsy

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