Snow in Auburn
More than once I have heard
your frosty winter promise whispered,
the fire crackle of your laughter,
felt your sorrow falling with the snap
of heavy branches in the woods.
Eternity, you roar so loud
it wakes me from my sleep; I stand
by the slamming screen door and stare,
wind sudden, deliberate, constant,
each gust stirring the empty field.
Though annuals stiffen, roses brown,
and hostas wilt, dawn will sigh
over blackness. I will ascertain answers
from each snowflake in six feet of snow.
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Published by Sarah M. Wells
Sarah M. Wells is the author of The Family Bible Devotional: Stories from the Gospels to Help Kids and Parents Love God and Love Others (2022), American Honey: A Field Guide to Resisting Temptation (2021), Between the Heron and the Moss (2020), The Family Bible Devotional: Stories from the Bible to Help Kids and Parents Engage and Love Scripture (2018), Pruning Burning Bushes (2012), and a chapbook of poems, Acquiesce, winner of the 2008 Starting Gate Award through Finishing Line Press (2009). Sarah's work has been honored with four Pushcart Prize nominations, and her essays have appeared in the notable essays list in the Best American Essays 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, and 2018.
Sarah is the recipient of a 2018 Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council. She resides in Ashland, Ohio with her husband and three children.
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