Kendra Nuttall
Hope, Like an April Morning
when dew dots fresh blooms
and patches of sun fill the cold
gaps between houses too close together.
Our throats are parched from screaming
into what we thought were
silent nights
when winter only sighed,
stretching into never-ending
dark.
I know it’s not spring,
but do you see it? Just there,
where the pine tree grows,
where you watch the birds come home.
On the canyon’s edge,
where a solitary cactus reaches
towards the sky.
It’s in our home too,
in the glow of the lamp
and the soft belly of our sleeping dog.
Let me open the clouds,
do you see it now?
—Submitted on 12/05/2020
Kendra Nuttall‘s debut collection of poems, A Statistical Study of Randomness, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in 2021. Her work has appeared in Spectrum Literary Journal, Capsule Stories, Califragile, Chiron Review, Maudlin House, and other journals, as well as in the anthology Poetry in the Time of Coronavirus Volume Two edited by G.A. Cuddy and Liz Kobak as a benefit for Doctors Without Borders and Partners In Health. Nuttall lives in Utah with her husband and poodle.
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