National Poetry Month : Jane Virginia Rohrer,

canvas

there is snow

          are trees wiped upward

   as if with fingers

nail beds caked

with froze-dirt out here

there is human skin

          human forehead

   human nose human eyes closed

are human words saying

   stand for just     

          a moment longer

let me draw your shoulders

          right and I am

  allowed to be

    in the snow human feet

mouth turned maybe-happy

Jane Virginia Rohrer is a writer and teacher from Southeastern Pennsylvania. She holds an MFA from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington and is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Pittsburgh where she studies sound, radio, and contemporary poetry and poetics. Her creative work has appeared or is forthcoming in Peach Mag, Metatron, Bone Bouquet, and others, and a chapbook forthcoming with above/ground press.