Poet of the Week: Derrick Wetson Brown
A Poem for Peter of The Snowy Day
You are a bright red cardinal feather Peter.
You are me.
A brown boy who scales mountains
and slides down slopes of imagination-
takes snowballs home for keepsakes
and weeps when what you love
melts away in the warmth of a happy home.
And haven’t we all as children tried
to hold on to happiness?
Pocket it
to stow away for a rainy day
when the melt becomes too much for us
and grown up fears and futures
start to snowball.
Peter. My brown reminder of the
child within, who’ll never melt
away.