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“Come into the house / Come in now!”

Come into the house! /

Come in now!

 

   she can’t

won’t

leave

the snowman

 

    the snowman

responds to her

ideas

   it grows

under her

hands   becomes

round and

       even

 

    it carries

the very

weave of

her

mitten!

 

     the yard is

her factory

everything

calls to

her to be

made

 

   broken

sticks  gravel

find her

      serve

  her

need

    to decorate

the blank

 cold

 

    it is

the material

she is

learning

       that makes

her spirit not

hers   alone

 

      that makes her

not her

   alone

 

  the formless

world  she

makes of it

of her

    a form

Contributor
Mary Buchinger

Mary Buchinger is the author of five collections of poetry, including / klaʊdz / (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2021), e i n f ü h l u n g/ in feeling (Main Street Rag, 2018), Aerialist (Gold Wake, 2015), and Navigating the Reach (Salmon Poetry, 2022). Her work has appeared in AGNI, Boston Globe, DIAGRAM, Gargoyle, PANK, phoebe, Plume, Salamander, Salt Hill, Seneca Review, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, and elsewhere. She serves on the board of the New England Poetry Club and is professor of English and communication studies at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston.

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