The Ambassador Poetry Project

January shakes out
her hair
tiny flakes vibrate
to the ground
The cold vast bay
moves with slush
A line of ice snakes
from the lighthouse
end of the pier

All grey, grey-blue
the bay churns and froths
the sky boils and folds
scattering crumbs
that crumble
to the pavement
All grey, grey-white
insignificant circle
in the moil of cloud
a meek stand-in for sun

Inside windows drip
with fever
Snowflakes collide into glass
desperate for shelter
Snow is lake’s daughter
afterbirth piles up
along the roadside
Days begin and end
without passage of time
The snow blows, falls

All grey, grey-blue
the thump of boots
at the door
All grey, grey-white
a car’s eyes in snow-fog

Waves stiffen at the shore
crackle creak
retreat

The long drips
winter’s palm lines
all run together
eventually
The lake the bay
froths churns creaks
The mother and the daughter
Lake and snow

Destiny Dorozan is a graduate student of Clinical Psychology at the University of Detroit Mercy. She has been writing, publishing, and performing poetry since age 9, and is often heard at open-mic venues in and around Detroit. Her poems have appeared in Rogue Poetry Review and The Credenza among other places. She has been a featured poet for Poetic Travelers in Ferndale, Michigan, Spirit Spit in Detroit, and Poetrio in Asheville, North Carolina. Her two self-published chapbooks are titled Emergence and Beautiful Disarray.