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Ice Dam

Ice Dam ATR/102.1 The airiness of snow’s accumulation in powdery upheapings on the roof swansdown-swaddled us through a muffled winter. Only now, in the first whispers of March, does the truth dribble down walls on the upstairs porch with the full weight of what was always water, fluid as mood and ponderous as grief, an oozing, seeping, weepy accusation. Now the recriminations; now we search for scapegoats (insulation? fan? blocked gutter?) but find there is no bargain-rate salvation. This costs. Somebody has to risk his life. The checkbook bleeds again. Abashed and bitter, we beat our breasts for what was left undone. Maryann Corbett Maryann Corbett is the author of four books, most recently Street View (Able Muse, 2017). Her third book, Mid Evil (University of Evansville Press, 2015), was the 2014 winner of the Richard Wilbur Award; she is also a past winner of the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize. Her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2018; on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and American Life in Poetry; and in many magazines and anthologies. A fifth book, In Code, will be published by Able Muse in 2020. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anglican Theological Review SAGE

Ice Dam

Corbett, Maryann
Anglican Theological Review , Volume 102 (1): 1 – Aug 25, 2021
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ATR/102.1 The airiness of snow’s accumulation in powdery upheapings on the roof swansdown-swaddled us through a muffled winter. Only now, in the first whispers of March, does the truth dribble down walls on the upstairs porch with the full weight of what was always water, fluid as mood and ponderous as grief, an oozing, seeping, weepy accusation. Now the recriminations; now we search for scapegoats (insulation? fan? blocked gutter?) but find there is no bargain-rate salvation. This costs. Somebody has to risk his life. The checkbook bleeds again. Abashed and bitter, we beat our breasts for what was left undone. Maryann Corbett Maryann Corbett is the author of four books, most recently Street View (Able Muse, 2017). Her third book, Mid Evil (University of Evansville Press, 2015), was the 2014 winner of the Richard Wilbur Award; she is also a past winner of the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize. Her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2018; on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and American Life in Poetry; and in many magazines and anthologies. A fifth book, In Code, will be published by Able Muse in 2020.

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Published: Aug 25, 2021

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