Yellow Ripe / Margaret Hanshaw

dancing girl press, 2013
$7.00

 
 
 Margaret Hanshaw received a BA in English Literature from Hamilton College and an MFA in poetry from Vermont College. She lives in Sudbury, Massachusetts, where she is a poet, freelance editor, and Amnesty International volunteer. This is her first book.



SNOWFLAKES


When it snows, the eye becomes itself.
A thousand daybreaks, a flaming hole.
In the snow an animal erases itself.
In the snow a bench replaces its sitter.
A window has no time but itself.
Into the world a voice makes it cold.