Best Engraver Poems
The Engraver, First Draft, In Need of AdviceIt snowed the day my mother taught me to engrave
She held a waxy green leaf between her mittened fingers
And mapped each yellow vein with her eager eyes
All filled up to the lashes with yellow
Scraping away the green, catching it under her fingernails
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Categories:
engraver, daughter, hope, mother,
Form:
Free verse