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Poet’s Corner: The Intimacy of Winter

Cristina Trapani-Scott by Cristina Trapani-Scott
February 6, 2020
in Arts and Culture, Poet's Corner
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The Intimacy of Winter

I have known winter

Intimately,

the way it creeps up

quietly while I am sleeping

and lays its silence not in white

like you might expect

but in strokes of pale

blue.

 

In the mornings,

Just after, when I have no choice

but to walk and the air

freezes the very words

that feel as jagged

as the arm of a snowflake,

I listen to my breath,

the way it lingers

on the weightlessness

of the silence,

the way it hangs

in the cold air briefly

before it drifts away.

Cristina Trapani-Scott finds poetry in the mundane. Her poems have appeared in Hip Mama Magazine and the Paterson Literary Review, among others. Her first book of poems, The Persistence of a Bathing Suit was published in 2017 and can be found locally at Western Stars Gallery & Studio.

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Cristina Trapani-Scott is an award-winning journalist and author who covered small-town life in Southeast Michigan for more than a decade. She moved to Lyons in 2017 with her husband, daughter and their dogs. A creative at heart, she finds inspiration in her daily walks around town.

Comments 2

  1. Avatar Kathleen Spring says:
    12 months ago

    your poem is almost like a “dream of a snow fall”… // also it made me pause… yes, on a brisk winter walk in the snow you are more aware… hear your breath more than probably any other time….

  2. Cristina Trapani-Scott Cristina Trapani-Scott says:
    12 months ago

    Thank you, Kathleen!

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