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Wind Chill Lynn Gilbert (bio) Battling a wind sharpfrom the northwest,I trudge slowly around the stream-fedsmall lake in the park, namedfor a local environmentalistwho died before her time.Hopeful signs posted here and therepicture likely wading birdsthough none appear today. The air stands at freezingwith wind chill,but even in March there’s noice or snow. I break off a stickeryhandful of dry teasel for a bouquetof sorts, and wonder when the pond’s marshy edgeswill come alive with frog noiseand sun break through the mottled hazethat passes for sky—perhapswhen the accursed plaguelifts from the land. Thenthe red-winged blackbird willonce more whisk from branchto branch, whistling. [End Page 24] Lynn Gilbert Lynn Gilbert has had poems in Blue Unicorn, Concho River Review, Exquisite Corpse, Gnu, The Huron River Review, Kansas Quarterly, Light, Mezzo Cammin, Mortar, Peninsula Poets, and The Texas Observer, among publications. She was a founding editor of Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review and a finalist in the Gerald Cable Book Award in 2021. She helps edit Third Wednesday literary magazine. Copyright © 2022 Berea College
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