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Poetry: After Snowfall

March 13, 2021 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

After Snowfall

I have come to like
the simple symmetry of
snow-blowing
our driveway.

It is like erasing
a great white board
revealing
a dazzling surface
on which to write again
the equations for
the rest of our lives.

About the Poet: Gene Ervine loves the crisp snowy winters of Alaska. He grew up in the cool, wet woods of the Pacific Northwest praying for snow. When his wife Nancy took a teaching job in a one-room school in a logging camp they moved to Alaska “for a year,” that adventure has stretched into lifetimes.

He studied English Literature and Creative Writing at Western Washington University in Bellingham. Exposure to the Imagists and Beats have shaped his writing. Gene worked as an exhibit planner and writer for the Department of the Interior. He now lives in Anchorage. For over forty years Alaska’s varied landscapes and seasons have inspired him.

Read more poems at the New York Almanack HERE.

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