but it was only thought snow, and nothing
when it began, a thingless veil, a reign
of molecules, so we could overlook
the beauties and hazards of being
burdened and cold.
Mary Moore
MARY B. MOORE's poems are collected in three books and several chapbooks: Dear If, (Orison Books, April 2022); Flicker (Dogfish Head Prize, 2016); and The Book Of Snow (Cleveland State UP, 1997); the chapbooks are Amanda and the Man Soul (Emrys Prize, 2017) and Eating the Light (Sable Books Contest 2016). Her poetry has won awards from NELLE, Terrain, Asheville Poetry Review and Nimrod. Poems appeared lately in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Gettysburg Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, The Nasty Women Poets Anthology, and Fire & Rain, Eco-Poetry of California. She lives in Huntington WV where she retired from Marshall University.
