Snow Angels

Author Maya Sarin

Snow Angels

Maya Sarin

I know it’s hard to remember the last time 
I lit up your world, even as the clouds 
concealed the sun. When you woke 
to a bright white glory 
of all that is soft and impressionable. 

I smoothed over the rough edges of your childhood 
and gave you a safe place to land. 
Your hopes hung like ice crystals— 
the very thing I’m made of. 
You made angels out of me. 

You stretched and pressed your limbs
making wings across the yard
and into the neighbor’s lawn 
until your fingers 
got cold inside your gloves. 

It was here, where I fell, 
that with every little crunch 
new footprints of memory were made—  
where time slowed down, 
the world went quiet, 
and each new day felt like a clean slate. 

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