A 'flat push'

“Outside the snow comes rolling in

from the flats of Quebec. It’s the flat push

on things I fear. The north glass

rattles and bulges….’’

— From “Storm,’’ by John Engels (1931-2007), a Vermont poet. He taught at St. Michael’s College, in Colchester, just north of Burlington.

“Allegory of Winter,’’ by Jerzy Siemiginowski-Eleuter (1683)

St. Michael’s College