The Sunday Poet: Sarah Dickenson Snyder

                    Sarah Dickenson Snyder

Sarah Dickenson Snyder has written poetry since she knew there was a form with conscious line breaks. She has two poetry collections, The Human Contract and Notes from a Nomad, both published in 2017.  https://sarahdickensonsnyder.com/

{yonder animalsfromtheneckdown}

after e. e. cummings

yonder animalsfromtheneckdown—

the scurriers on dried leaves seem yonder

no more—dead mouse in a slippery sink,

one sunk to the bottom of a toilet bowl,

all of their scant brown scat—dashes

of how close the wildness is, a ripening

unburdened through walls—we all scurry

in a world, gnaw our way to sweet,

camouflage the underbelly but know {not

for the first time} that every creature

is thirst stricken and will spill

upon the earth in the end.

© Sarah Dickenson Snyder