When Fall decembers sky
and steals the warmth
from the wind, what’s left
is the cool inspiration of snow
falling on leaves of grass
as words crystallizing
on the white expanse
of the page.
Image Credit: Christmas snow background (PSD Graphics)
ADR ADVISOR/POETRY EDITOR John C. Mannone has poems appearing/accepted in the 2020 Antarctic Poetry Exhibition, North Dakota Quarterly, The Menteur, Blue Fifth Review, Poetry South, Baltimore Review, and others. His poetry won the Impressions of Appalachia Creative Arts Contest (2020). He was awarded a Jean Ritchie Fellowship (2017) in Appalachian literature and served as celebrity judge for the National Federation of State Poetry Societies (2018). His latest of three collections, Flux Lines: The Intersection of Science, Love, and Poetry, is forthcoming from Linnet’s Wings Press (2020). He edits poetry for Abyss & Apex, Silver Blade, and Liquid Imagination, as well as being a contributing poetry editor for ADR and a physics professor.
Latest posts by John C. Mannone (see all)
- William Whispers In My Ear by John C. Mannone - May 1, 2023
- Χαίρω by John C Mannone - December 18, 2022
- From a Long Line of Trees by John C. Mannone - April 19, 2022