April Snowfall, a Mercy

By Caroline Liberatore

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Snow-laden eyelids flickering
            Shut, then wide, mirror peeking

Behold, the purified landscape
            Cracked earth blanketed, now faultless

Lines, absorbing every drop
            Until dirt-crust lace dissolves

A new embellishment, now
            Let the coming green remember

Dross, may too, be vindicated     
            ​With a festal blanketing

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Caroline Liberatore is a poet from Cleveland, Ohio. She has also been published in Ekstasis Magazine and Ashbelt Journal.

Caroline's other work on Foreshadow: 
Library Liturgy (Poetry, February 2022)
Ecology (Psalm 84) (Poetry, August 2022)
Unearthings (Poetry, September 2022)