Alice Fulton

Alice Fulton was born in Troy, New York, on January 25, 1952, the daugher of a nurse and the proprietor of the Phoenix Hotel, and the youngest of three daughters. She had already begun writing poetry in high school, but

"Make It New"

by Alice Fulton (b. 1952)

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I find it helpful to imagine writing in a blizzard

with every inscription

designed to prevent snow

crystals from drifting in.

Avoid the hive mind. Go fly a kite,

raise a stained glass window in the sky.

It’s the opposite of making love to drudgery,

what I do for a dying.

Remove the bitter sediment

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