Robbie Gamble
Flurry
It’s difficult for snow
to be beautiful in March.
But yes this morning
salient and silent
blanketing over
recent roadside
crusts and smears.
Yet how dreary
the inevitable
relapse of umber,
the mud-sucked
embankments, the runoff.
My brother is dying. How
I’ve longed for a crocus.
Back to Issue XV…
Robbie Gamble (he/him) is the author of the chapbook A Can of Pinto Beans (Lily Poetry Review Press, 2022). His poems have appeared in ONE ART, Post Road, Whale Road Review, Salamander, and The Sun. He is the poetry editor at Solstice Literary Magazine, and he divides his time between Boston and an apple orchard in Vermont.
