ANN MALASPINA
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POETRY
In Spring
I will plant fennel
for the swallowtails,
paint the porch rails,
read a hundred books,
run a thousand miles,
end world hunger,
bring peace.
I will do many,
many things
in spring.
For now, ice
is on the steps
and the snowy
hill is steep.
All I want to do
is sleep.
Ann Malaspina is a poet and children’s author who recently spent two sub-zero Januarys in Montpelier, Vermont, while finishing her MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her poems have appeared in Gargoyle, The New Verse News, Mad Poets Review, The Idiom, and other literary magazines. Her next children’s book, Nelson Mandela (Enslow Publishers), will be out in 2017.
