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