Renée M. Sgroi has a collection of poetry forthcoming released by Guernica Editions, In a Tension of Leaves and Binding, but you won’t find this poem shared below in that book. This is a new, unpublished poem, that Renée has shared with us expressly for this issue of the River Street Review.
chilled
all Christmas week, rain—
rain on the highways splashing
back at windshields so that water a hazard
and the clouds, so low they became the grey
of our hair.
winter paused
to greet us New Year’s Day,
as if this annual herald
wished to freeze beginnings,
to silver fresh starts with snow.
in Japan,
tsunami warnings issued after earthquakes
and here at home, four bodies
fished from a frozen river today’s news
which, like yesterday, in the year before,
was not happy.
the squirrel that had dashed all week
across the road in rain huddles now
chilled, as at midnight,
after the Tiffany ball dropped
glittered flakes of light for a splintered moment
on this particled world, and snow
fell as from streamers or party favours
to the ground where i stood and waited,
where you didn’t kiss me
© 2024 by Renée M. Sgroi.
More about Renée M. Sgroi:
Renée M. Sgroi (she/her) has published one previous poetry collection, life print, in points (erbacce-press, 2020), and edited the poetry anthology, Written Tenfold (Poetry Friendly Press, 2018). Her poetry has most recently been published in Parentheses Journal, Literary Review of Canada, and Pinhole Poetry, with work forthcoming in Funicular Magazine, yolk literary magazine, and Augur Magazine. A contributing editor for Arc Poetry Magazine, Renée is a member of The Writers’ Union of Canada, the League of Canadian Poets, the Canadian Authors Association, the Association of Italian-Canadian Writers, The Ontario Poetry Society, and is an affiliate of Amherst Writers and Artists. Renée holds a PhD from the University of Toronto and an MSc in Creativity and Change Leadership from SUNY Buffalo State University.
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