David Ebenbach
First Day of Spring, First Spring
There is a beauty that engulfs,
that replaces the morning―
no sun on the sidewalk, no air
to breathe, and the early mist
held in place as if by hands, but
not mine, not me, gone, not my slow
morning thoughts, gone
with the row homes and me,
down to the footprint, gone, barely holding on
to even the words: cherry blossom,
cherry blossom, cherry
blossom.
David Ebenbach is the author of Autogeography, a chapbook of poetry (Finishing Line Press); two collections of short stories―Between Camelots (University of Pittsburgh Press), which won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize and the GLCA New Writer’s Award; and Into the Wilderness (Washington Writers’ Publishing House), which won the WWPH Fiction Prize―as well as The Artist’s Torah (Cascade Books),
a non-fiction guide to the creative process. Ebenbach has a PhD in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MFA in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and he teaches creative writing at Georgetown University.
Find out more at www.davidebenbach.com
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There is a beauty that engulfs,
that replaces the morning―
no sun on the sidewalk, no air
to breathe, and the early mist
held in place as if by hands, but
not mine, not me, gone, not my slow
morning thoughts, gone
with the row homes and me,
down to the footprint, gone, barely holding on
to even the words: cherry blossom,
cherry blossom, cherry
blossom.
David Ebenbach is the author of Autogeography, a chapbook of poetry (Finishing Line Press); two collections of short stories―Between Camelots (University of Pittsburgh Press), which won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize and the GLCA New Writer’s Award; and Into the Wilderness (Washington Writers’ Publishing House), which won the WWPH Fiction Prize―as well as The Artist’s Torah (Cascade Books),
a non-fiction guide to the creative process. Ebenbach has a PhD in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MFA in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and he teaches creative writing at Georgetown University.
Find out more at www.davidebenbach.com
Return to July 2014 Edition