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Brain Freeze

By Erynn Crittenden
January 13, 2025
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Words are cheap.

They scatter on the wind
Like wayward snowflakes,
Melting on the mind
Until one sticks, then another,
And the words pile up,
Collecting in snow drifts
That block the road
And force us to pause,
Shovel in hand,
In an attempt to dig through
The sparkling facade
Of ephemeral words
And reach their concrete meaning.


Editor: Michelle Naragon & Shannon Hensley


 

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Erynn Crittenden

Erynn Crittenden has written poetry since she could hold a pen. This love prompted her to earn a BA in Creative Writing, where she learned how to experiment with syllables and styles. Since then, Erynn has self-published three poetry collections (By the Bones, Transfiguration, and Into the Western Sky) through Amazon. She also writes and publishes plenty of individual poems on her website, and her work has appeared in the Talon Literary Magazine, the Beautiful Poetry anthology by Silent Sparks Press, the #AmWriting anthology by the Wayne Foundation, and Life Blood: A Collection of Vampire Tales by Gary Hill. Erynn is also the creator and host of the Present Poetry Podcast, where she reads and celebrates a different poet every week. Find it and the rest of her works by visiting her website at LadyErynn.com.

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