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6/26/2021 2 Comments To Follow Undisciplined Ink or Having Many Things to Carry, by Sarah Dickenson SnyderThink of all the things to save: those sheets of shirt cardboard, the Rabbit, rabbits I say aloud to no one on the first day of every month, the embroidered fabric I found in the night market of Chiang Mai, pens with thin nibs, what my mind finds like a planet devoted to spinning, that miniature metal sculpture of a woman riding a bicycle the black flap of her dress curled from imagined wind in Vietnam, pockets of letters, the tile from Istanbul symmetrical and filled with hues of blues like my daughter’s eyes & her voice in the dark at four-years-old, I don’t want to die alone, and the fact that each kernel of corn is attached to a thread of silk under the husk. Maybe the end will be like diving into a channel with a shore on the other side that we don’t know is reachable. Maybe we’ll carry what we’ve saved as we fall into water or become water falling or at least feel touched by its weight, its glistening, that last breath unribbed. Sarah Dickenson Snyder has written poetry since she knew there was a form with conscious line breaks. She has three poetry collections, The Human Contract (2017), Notes from a Nomad (nominated for the Massachusetts Book Awards 2018), and With a Polaroid Camera (2019). Recently, poems appeared in Rattle, Lily Poetry Review, and RHINO. She has been a 30/30 poet for Tupelo Press, nominated for Best of Net, the Poetry Prize Winner of Art on the Trails 2020, and a 2021 Finalist and Semi-Finalist in the Iron Horse Literary Review’s National Poetry Month contest. She lives in the hills of Vermont. sarahdickensonsnyder.com
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Kirsten Pike
6/27/2021 12:33:07 pm
Stunning. I love how Sarah combines crisp images with big questions and memorable words like “unribbed.” Such a skilled and wise poet.
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