Saint Paul, MN
SPRING IN MINNESOTA
Ice melts from our streets
every year, though it’s hard to believe.
In the vault of winter, ice is steel,
cold as the linked chain of cages,
uncompromising as bullets.
In winter, spring is a dream. Still:
there are veins of warmth like wells of water.
On our streets, ice is melting.
ABOUT THE POET
Freeman Ng (www.AuthorFreeman.com) is a former Google software engineer and the author of Bridge Across the Sky, a YA verse novel based on the Chinese immigration experience through Angel Island (Atheneum Books for Young Readers); Basho’s Haiku Journeys, a haiku picture book (Stone Bridge Press); and Haiku Diem, a daily haiku feed. He’s also the co-author, with Peter Dale Scott, of Poetry and Terror: Politics and Poetics in Coming to Jakarta (Bloomsbury USA). Ripples, a picture book about gravitational waves and friendship written by Freeman and illustrated by Daniel Miyares, is forthcoming from Neal Porter Books in Fall 2027.
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