Alice B. Fogel

FROST

The window is a clear 
still river not unlike air
its quiet lingering 
a devotion a study
in convergence
of outside & in 
on it the frost a scrim
formed of cool fall 
dawn & sleep’s heat
can you not feel this
touch with your hands
the rime on the glass
that dampens our skin
each side longing
for the other 
for the opening 
of the window 

Alice B Fogel served as the New Hampshire poet laureate from 2014 through 2019, instituting a NH Youth Poet Laureate, among other projects. Her latest book is A Doubtful House. Interval: Poems Based on Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” won the Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature & the 2016 NH Literary Award in Poetry, & her third book, Be That Empty, was a national poetry bestseller. She is also the author of Strange Terrain, on how to appreciate poetry without necessarily “getting” it. Nominated for Best of the Web & twelve times for the Pushcart, she has been awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She works one-on-one with students with learning differences at Landmark College, & hikes mountains whenever possible. 

Please visit her at : https://www.alicebfogel.com