Poem-A-Day April 16: Shape of the Invisible

Shape of the Invisible

At dawn
Upon the snow
The delicate imprint
Left by the sleeping body of
The wind.




Today’s poem by Dudley Randall can be found in his 1971 collection Move to Remember: Poems of Four Decades. I love that the shape of this poem mimmicks the sweep of the wind imprint on snow.

In addition to being a poet, Dudley Randall was also a librarian and the founder of Broadside Press, which published the work of many influential African American writers, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Nikki Giovanni, Robert Hayden, Audre Lorde, and Sonia Sanchez.

—Ællen

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