Sarah Dickenson Snyder
A Crash
Just the paper whites growing too tall,
their heavy heads of fragrance and white
bursts. That was the sound
in the middle of the night—
flowers toppling over.
A seed in the ground,
a bulb in the darkness,
nothing really,
just quiet growth
below a surface, puncturing
the dirt to find air and sun—
how little nourishment it needed
to stand tall
and make noise.
Sarah Dickenson Snyder is the author of The Human Contract (Kelsay Books, 2017) and Notes from a Nomad (Finishing Line Press, 2017). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Comstock Review, Main Street Rag, Chautauqua Literary Magazine, Piedmont Journal, STIRRING, Whale Road Review, Front Porch, The Sewanee Review, and RHINO.
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