Winter Storm Warning
The forecast assures us
of placid skies
but snow comes instead
commanding our attention
like a symptom
the moment it debuts
and when, to a set of them,
a name adheres.
Like the hour an embryo
embroiders itself to me
so delicately
and the day it falls away.
In the snow, my mind
makes angels.
Convince me
my body is not the enemy.
Elizabeth Onusko is the author of Portrait of the Future with Trapdoor, which won the Bryant-Lisembee Book Prize and will be published by Red Paint Hill in 2016. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Witness, Best New Poets 2015, Slice Magazine, Linebreak, and The Awl, among others. Visit her at elizabethonusko.com.
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