Included is one of my personal favorites among all the poems I have written over the decades, “The Beach in Winter.” If you like it, buy the issue and see my other two poems: https://snakenationbooks.store/product/snake-nation-review-issue-28
THE BEACH IN WINTER
That winter day we didn’t drive
along the shore, didn’t watch the waves
explode berserkly over snow banks,
didn’t stop to take a photo
on a boardwalk bench,
plug quarters into telescope
to track a distant steamer chug towards ocean
underneath a clutch of rising seabirds,
didn’t hurtle snowballs bare-hand at the water,
didn’t wrap our shivers in a shroud of steam,
but stood at window sill and counted taxis
as they lurched through slush
and talked of how we loved
to walk along the beach in winter.
- Marc Jampole
Published in Snake Nation Review #28 (2021)