Snowfall in March: <br />I sit in the white glow reading a thesis <br />About you. Your poems, your life. <br /> <br />The author's my student, <br />He even quotes me. <br /> <br />Forty years since we joked in a kitchen in Portland <br />Twenty since you disappeared. <br /> <br />All those years and their moments— <br />Crackling bacon, slamming car doors, <br />Poems tried out on friends, <br />Will be one more archive, <br />One more shaky text. <br /> <br />But life continues in the kitchen <br />Where we still laugh and cook, <br />Watching snow. <br /> <br /> <br />Anonymous submission.<br /><br />Gary Snyder<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/for-lew-welch-in-a-snowfall/
