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Snow Day
The Force of Our Becoming

Snow Day

Just for a day...

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Anna Elisabeth Howard, CJN
Jan 11, 2025
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Just for a day
The world is grey and white
Snow blankets turning sound down
Soft squeaking under my feet
Soft feathery flakes on my shoulders

Just for a day
I curl under my blanket on the couch
Drinking tea to warm back up
Mystery novel in hand

Snow in Tennessee means
Everything stops
Just for a day
Maybe two
And I need it all to stop
Really for longer
But I’ll take this day
These fictionalized problems

Over a world that rang the new year out with floods
And the new year in with fire
Devastation for the devastators
Except 
Those responsible for the devastation 
And those devastated 
Are as always separated by
Money 
Race
Gender
Sexuality 
Neurodivergence
Those who bomb and who bombs fall on
Those who shoot and who are shot
Separated by the same 
Those arrested 
And those who are found guilty yet walk

Rich white men commit felonies 
Lady Justice shrugs
School children in Tennessee say the wrong thing
Text the wrong thing
Arrested
Stripsearched
Confined to solitary
For being thirtee…

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