Poetry Month 2012: Raymond P. Hammond - Snowfall

Raymond P. Hammond is a poet and critic who, originally from Virginia, now resides in Brooklyn and works at the Statue of Liberty NM as a law enforcement officer half of the week and as editor-in-chief of The New York Quarterly the other half. He holds an MA from New York University where most of his classes were intense studies of poetics with William Packard at the Chelsea Gallery Diner over a hamburger.

The following poem Snowfall was previously published in LIPS #34/35.



SNOWFALL

I love how the snow slightly

salts on shoulders, in hair

of the darkly draped women

whose sole earlier accent

of color was powder blue

pink, red, green, fuchsia scarves, hats

a contrast of dark to light

daguerreotype to color

old, young, ancient to modern

a colorized timelessness

of vision that I can pass

through and get chillingly wet




*Note – Photo of Raymond P. Hammond by Amanda J. Bradley.

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