Here is a poem by Alexandra Zelman-Doring, the Brown University undergraduate who took first place in the 85th annual Glascock Poetry Contest at Mount Holyoke College last month. Previous winners and contestants have included Sylvia Plath, John Koethe, Kathleen Norris, Katha Pollitt, Mary Jo Salter, and Larissa Szporluk.
— DL
Love in the Mind
Why there watching the snow I fall
to my knee in prayer, why to you away there watching (the life of us
pass) to my heart`s prayer there watching
I fall and do not wish in
prayer to pass you there again
because to my knee in silence
only watching I fall because you watching my heart there do
not wish to pass in silence.
(What will always happen again.)
— Alexandra Zelman-Doring