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It snowed again last night. Encased the world in white and muffled the gray earth underneath a snowy sea of slow and quiet. You need quiet, you said to me, before launching into stories about your day: the tests at the hospital, the elderly man you fought with over Fox News, the cup of coffee the nurse brought you, how dad is doing, and what you had for dinner.
Snow makes the world quiet but you hate the snow. You hate the cold because it reminds you of fighting for the warmest spot on the bed you shared with your siblings. It reminds you of your first winter in America and how you didnāt own a jacket thick enough to protect against the Chicago wind. It reminds you of being poor. Poorer. I love the snow, and I hate the quiet. So Iāll listen to you talk, and by the time the phone call ends, and the plows have come down my street, weāll both have gotten what we wanted this morning.
Ashling Meehan-Fanning is a poet based in Wisconsin and a second-year student at Augsburg Universityās MFA program. ThĆ³ WiÅ Magazineās upcoming issue will publish two of her poems. On weekends youāll find her hiking with her wife or playing D&D as an excuse to have a four-hour brunch with friends.