April 2015 April 2015 | Page 12

it doesn’t not matter you don’t think but i’m sure

what wasn’t is not was never what once was

but let’s have a round of a pause for our dear dead old snow

the trees and the ground, laughing, feigned afraid for their leaves

but while this pattern is exciting we’re not positive it’s deposited

not like this has never happened nothing going to ignore

we’ve forgotten what it isn’t like to forget what it is

so time and again and again time we remember

this wonderful new thing which has never ever

ever never

happened before

—Alden Brine, Class of 2014