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by Eran Eads

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“In 1816, Captain Henry Hall of Dennis, Massachusetts discovered that sand blowing on his cranberry vines stimulated the vine’s growth.”—cranberries.org

A pang of cold arrives
and the sand storms.
The force blasts in
protection, blistering wind,
a pang of cold becomes
the pain of winter. And yes,
the weather will be cruel
but, yes, the weather
brings a blanket with it too,
that is how it is. Life
spindles, living leaflings,
and the sand, and the sand
and then the discovery!
I have kept myself. I have
been made in the weather,
the weather, buried down
into it, this was in winter.
You & I in winter. The storm.
I did not make the weather;
I stayed there, with you.

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Eran Eads (all pronouns) is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. They received their BA & BT from University of Alaska Fairbanks. He teaches writing at UAF & UMGC and develops courses for multiple Learning Management Systems (LMS). They are passionate about education differentials of disenfranchised queer, rural, and military students. His poems have appeared. Check out his Instagram or Twitter and other social things @eraneads

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