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Focus your gaze on fur rippling
around your vision
Heels press down
ovals of ash-splint sinew underfoot
Mittens, boiled wool caked in white crust
fingertips burning—
Stone chapel, closed c’est L’eglise the arched red door
Look up; snowflakes— they drift in,
settle on your boots
Sonja Johanson has work appearing or forthcoming in BOAAT, The Writer’s Almanac and Outlook Springs. She is a contributing editor at the Found Poetry Review, and the author of Impossible Dovetail (Silver Birch Press), all those ragged scars (Choose the Sword Press) and Trees in Our Dooryards (Redbird Chapbooks). Sonja divides her time between work in Massachusetts and her home in the mountains of western Maine.
Beautiful!
It’s so perfect. It’s exactly how snowshoeing is.