After the winter storm,
a hundred feet ahead of me
on the trail, on one side
of which are trees
and brambles and a cliff
overlooking the river,
and on the other side
of which are brambles
and trees and a highway
extending from New Jersey
to New York, I saw her
extend her wings and levitate,
and for a moment, before
I saw her for what she was,
I thought the snow was tired
of lying on the ground.
This poem first appeared in Off the Coast.
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Joel Allegretti is the author of, most recently, Platypus (NYQ Books, 2017), a collection of poems, prose, and performance texts, and Our Dolphin (Thrice Publishing, 2016), a novella. He is the editor of Rabbit Ears: TV Poems (NYQ Books, 2015). The Boston Globe called Rabbit Ears “cleverly edited” and “a smart exploration of the many, many meanings of TV.”
