Brenda Nazario - Seventeenth Snowing

Half -smoothed and half-chipped sandstone around the edges, Rivers carving Appalachian peaks like wood. 

in gravel soils, a bradford pear's pointed leaf. 

Where she'll channel the cold currents to water it 

From bright orange to green on the seventeenth spring when bradford’s bloom perfumes the air of the deceased 

The petals will brown and its leaves will still give shade to the grasses that point to its stars in clear blue 

but the hands of a daisy are cold bitter blue 

the petal tips are red from icy river streams 

and the bradford pear's pointed leaves will multiply the banks will be paved to kiss the gravel soils 

Those new beaches will flood it all, to see the new half-smoothed and half-chipped sandstone around the edges.