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The Smell of Snow


The smell of snow
melting is briefly

 

nose lifted

listen –

come sun touch 

tongues warm

tincture of wet

 

remnants of drift

mettle of snowdrops 

slight salt scent 

cataclysmic 

 

a yearning 

for petrichor

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in Dispatches from the World, ed. Ariel Gordon, Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture, University of Manitoba, chapbook, May 2022
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