The snow begins
it falls and no one can stop it
it covers the back fence and flings itself
outward, a lost thing—
erasing time and memory in its great silence.
A running figure
on the last scrap of day
a rope of footfalls writes the script
wind turns to smoke and threads—
that double what the voice can say.
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(A version of "Feathered Alphabet" first appeared in Annie G. Rogers' book, A Shining Affliction.)
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Annie G. Rogers is a poet, as well as a writer of memoir and fiction. She has published two books that combine her clinical work in psychoanalysis with memoir:
A Shining Affliction, and
The Unsayable. She has edited a volume of short fiction and memoir writing from her workshops with writers in Ireland,
Charlie's Chasing the Sheep. She is currently working on a book of poems,
Approximate Names. She is Professor of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Psychology at
Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.
