Let sky's soft crush come in sleep.
Let squirrels huddle, clouds shine. Please
a white-fresh fire. Please a kid's feast, her mouth
stuffed with ice-ash, enlivened. May stoplights
flame across miles. May salt splash, trucks
grumble. Let gray moths tremble,
dogs wallow and shove. Please smooth a field's
face. Let shovel, let curse, let birds
hunch over wires and pines. Bring a lustrous
season of bones. Let the old men
take down their parchment and pens. Let mummy cloth
grip what is gone. Please a museum
of smoke, a hall of rooftops. Make me and the trees
forget what we have lost, put on
our silver clothes in stillness, our skin shining,
our rushing done. Let the ground be the sun.
Snow Prayer by Jeffrey Bean | Sandalwood Poetry Reed Diffuser
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Jeffrey Bean is the author of three chapbooks and three full-length poetry collections. His most recent chapbook, Ella’s Plan, was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the 2022 Poet’s Corner/Maine Media Chapbook Contest, and his most recent full-length collection, Everywhere, Everywhere, was chosen by Robert Morgan for the 2024 Vern Rutsala Prize and published by Cloudbank Books. Recent poems appear or are forthcoming in The Southern Review, Colorado Review, Poets.org, Sugar House Review, Image, and Tahoma Literary Review, among other journals. He is Professor of English at Central Michigan University, where he is a two-time winner of the Excellence in Teaching Award.
