Meg Kearney has written of two indelible forces, one forged by hatred (9/11) and one of nature (an ice storm) which bookended a marriage described in her amazing crown of sonnets, The Ice Storm. Kearney’s ability to incise marriage into its disparate pieces over the span of a storm is uncanny and unrelenting, much like the storm that surrounds wife and husband. The marriage begins with “light spilling soft as a brush across canvas” and ends “Platinum bleeding green and then scorched by fire.” All the nuts and bolts of a marriage are described under Kearney’s gimlet eye: “Now there’s nothing but dye in the rose.”Betsy Snider lives on a lake in Acworth, NH. She has written two books of poetry, View From the Other Side (Blue Light Press, 2020) and Hope is a Muscle (Blue Light Press, 2015) which won the Blue Light Press Award.
This post is part of our celebration of National Poetry Month 2021 for which I asked New Hampshire poets to recommend books of poetry by Granite State poets. These titles are generally available from local booksellers and may be held in public libraries as well.
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