Alice B. Fogel

ONCE

Once water breaks away
from the dry shore

and what you’ve betrayed
breaks your gaze the way

day breaks from night
and noon blues to one

the way we break
ground for the burial

will you say in good faith
this is what I wanted

this is how I was called
to live, to love?

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