Snowflake
Timing’s everything. The vapor rises
high in the sky, tossing to and fro,
then freezes, suddenly, and crystalizes
into a perfect flake of miraculous snow.
For countless miles, drifting east above
the world, whirling about in a swirling free-
for-all, appearing aimless, just like love,
but sensing, seeking out, its destiny.
Falling to where the two young skaters stand,
hand in hand, then flips and dips and whips
itself about to ever-so-gently land,
a miracle, across her unkissed lips:
as he blocks the wind raging from the south,
leaning forward to kiss her lovely mouth.
- William Baer
BIOGRAPHY
William Baer was born in Geneva, New York in 1948. As a writer, editor,
translator and professor, Baer has authored and edited fifteen books, among them
The Unfortunates, which won the T.S. Eliot Prize in 1997, and
Bocage and Other Sonnets, recipient of the X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize.
Baer is the founding editor of The Formalist, a literary journal
dedicated to Formalist poetry, and serves as a contributing editor of
Measure. He is a former poetry editor and film critic of
Crisis Magazine. Baer teaches creative writing, cinema and world
cultures at the University of Evansville, in Evansville, Indiana, where he lives
with his wife and children.
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