{"id":2286,"date":"2014-10-02T16:17:27","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T20:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/?p=2286"},"modified":"2014-10-02T16:19:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T20:19:52","slug":"another-success-for-sandra-kohler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/another-success-for-sandra-kohler\/","title":{"rendered":"Another success for Sandra Kohler"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Poem of the Moment” on the Mass Poetry website today, October 2, 2014, \u00a0is\u00a0<\/span>Sandra Kohler’s\u00a0<\/span>Snowblind. <\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>What fun she is having, and lucky us!<\/span><\/p>\n

Sunday morning, snow. An icy snow, thick,
\ncrystalline. I sit in a white-lit room, looking
\nthrough white lace curtains at the white-draped<\/p>\n

houses and cars and trees of Tonawanda
\nStreet. The only sound the scrape, rasp of one
\nshovel, one shoveller. What is the language<\/p>\n

for this white light, cold state, this steady fall
\nof winter: prison, embrace, beauty, blindness?
\nThe house is soundless. A distant roar \u00ad\u2013 truck<\/p>\n

or plow. The freight of Sunday papers waiting,
\ntheir sections worlds: imagination, arts, sport;
\nwar, bombings, concentration camps, terror.<\/p>\n

All architecture is the architecture of desire:
\nwhat\u2019s built from our wishes, dark or aspiring.
\nIn today\u2019s news, a Vatican statesman calls<\/p>\n

Gaza a concentration camp, to Israeli outrage:
\ntheir blind claim to the moral high ground.
\nIs the claim always a sign of blindness?<\/p>\n

I condemn Israel for bombing Gaza, while on
\nthe Boston streets where I live young men are
\nshooting each other and I close my eyes, hope<\/p>\n

not to be in the line of fire or ricochet.
\nThe wind chime on the porch slowly stirs,
\nas if moved not by wind, but from within.<\/p>\n

Across the street, a shadow\u2019s shadow: crow,
\nblack marker, is perched on the crest of
\nMiss Rose\u2019s slanted roof, defining the line<\/p>\n

between the white of snow, the white
\nof sky. Morning\u2019s clear light is blinding,
\nunsparing. There\u2019s nothing left to spare.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Sandra Kohler’s third collection of poems,\u00a0Improbable Music,<\/em>(Word Press) appeared in May, 2011. Earlier collections are\u00a0The Country of\u00a0Women<\/em>\u00a0(Calyx, 1995) and\u00a0The Ceremonies of Longing<\/em>, winner of the 2002\u00a0Associated Writing Programs Award Series in Poetry\u00a0 (University of\u00a0Pittsburgh Press, 2003). Her poems have appeared in journals, including\u00a0The New Republic, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Prairie Schooner<\/em>, and many\u00a0others over the past 35 years. A resident of Pennsylvania for most of\u00a0her adult life, she moved to the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston in 2007.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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