Alice B. Fogel

OTHER

It doesn't matter where the wind came from or how far:
behind it is only the past. Direction's a different thing.

How the snow drifts cut & ridge. Where the wind sheers 
& lifts: a path appears momentarily—like the trail ahead 

through the small waves that trace & then erase the coast. 
A swift hiss of flakes spinning into swerves off surfaces—

& that rhythmic patter lapping at the shore—
map the position we're in & we ought to follow yearning:

listing like ships & sleighs: free & grateful for what's fixed:
full then empty: each time of filling each time of emptying

at once & always filled with & emptied of the other:

Alice B Fogel served as the New Hampshire poet laureate from 2014 through 2019, instituting a NH Youth Poet Laureate, among other projects. Her latest book is A Doubtful House. Interval: Poems Based on Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” won the Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature & the 2016 NH Literary Award in Poetry, & her third book, Be That Empty, was a national poetry bestseller. She is also the author of Strange Terrain, on how to appreciate poetry without necessarily “getting” it. Nominated for Best of the Web & twelve times for the Pushcart, she has been awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She works one-on-one with students with learning differences at Landmark College, & hikes mountains whenever possible. 

Please visit her at : https://www.alicebfogel.com