We must feature the great poem "Sometimes Winter Comes When You Least Expect It" by Terry L. Kennedy in Waccamaw, issue no. 12, Spring 2014. It's both a great stream of consciousness/wide style poem and a talented look at both emotion and nature. And how they intersect. This poem captures something universal and yet does not slide into the obvious or the cliche. It's a great piece.
Here's an excerpt:
Like a winter day that arrives in June when there’s nothing to do but drink black coffee, watch the rain, so too will the thin white inch of memory round your neighbor’s corner, disappear down the block. Like touching my finger to your lips, so too will the day-long mist sharpen something for us, perhaps our image
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