Issue 22: Up in the Air

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Amanda Leigh Rogers

April Snow

I wanted apple blossoms
but today these wet flakes rush to earth.
Looking up into the sifting
I lost my feel for gravity
and almost drifted up.

When I looked downward to relearn myself
I saw how the whiteness clung
to the crocuses. It filled
their purple flutes with winter.

If you were here, your heart might hurt—
not because spring is baffled for a day,
or for the way the icy pieces burn the skin,
but that the flowers and the snow
bloom toward a silence
no one thought to pray for.

Amanda Leigh Rogers lives in Abington, Pennsylvania, with her husband and three sons and teaches writing and theater at Bryn Athyn College. She loves poetry not only as an art form, but also as a spiritual practice, one that invites writer and reader to move between states of quiet presence and energetic expression. Her creative goal is always to serve the poem and love the reader. Her work has appeared in various literary and general interest magazines.