City Winter
Hailing from Ottawa, Canada, Andrea has been published in the anthology, "Gifts of the Heartland," and in Clevermag.com, Ascent and Jones Av.
By Andrea Shumovsky
Muddy snowmen
Stand in rows
Protecting our street
Their stick arms still
Clinging to the
Remains of their summer
Oily pebble grins
Make up the city smiles
Of east side snowmen
A tattered hat
A red boa scarf
Old runners no boots
Nuts and bolts
Adorn their
Gasoline stained bellies
Weakness in the ranks
As a golden retriever
Enjoys his morning walk
By midmorning the
First slides off the curb
Loosing an old mitten and a bolt eye to the gutter
The eastsiders loose
Buttons and bolts, sticks
And select garments to wind and passersby.
Defiantly the leader
Refuses to surrender
Despite the sunny afternoon
At 3:00 the best of the
Snowmen
Tattered and melting still
Stand proud
To be eastsiders.
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