For the wind, thread your fingers
through the chimes.
For the sun, heat your soup up
on the stove.
For the snow, crush the frozen
with your skis.
For the cardinal, place your flowers
in the window.
For the flowers, feed them water
made of snow.
This poem first appeared in Poetry Porch Online (2023).
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Carla Schwartz.’s poems appear in The Practicing Poet and her collections Signs of Marriage, Mother, One More Thing, and Intimacy with the Wind. Learn more: carlapoet.com, or all social media @cb99videos. Recent/upcoming curations: Great Weather for MEDIA, Contemporary Haibun Online, Modern Haiku, Paterson Literary Review, North Dakota Quarterly, One Art, Rattle Magazine, Sheila-Na-Gig, Spank the Carp, The MacGuffin, and Leon Literary Review. Carla Schwartz received the NEPC Cummings Prize.
