Kate Falvey

In Their Element:
All That Bright Dazzle
 
They really seemed to imagine that 
the new snow
had been created,
with deliberate accuracy,
for all the glow and sparkle,
all the delicious intensity
of the cold shudder,
the brisk west-wind
flying bits of airy voices
through all that bright dazzle,
glimmering in drifts
of unworldly early garden.



*Found in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle” from The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales (1852).

Kate Falvey's work has been published in many journals and anthologies; in a full-length collection, The Language of Little Girls (David Robert Books); and in two chapbooks, What the Sea Washes Up (Dancing Girl Press) and Morning Constitutional in Sunhat and Bolero (Green Fuse Poetic Arts). She co-founded (with Monique Ferrell) and edited the 2 Bridges Review, published through City Tech (City University of New York) where she teaches, and is an associate editor for the Bellevue Literary Review.