In the Shadow of Mount Cook Sir Edmund Hillary’s Great-Granddaughter Succumbs to Fever, by Brent Terry

Wolf Shadows, by Lorette C. Luzajic (Canada) 2022

In the Shadow of Mount Cook Sir Edmund Hillary’s 
Great-Granddaughter Succumbs to Fever

On an evening before winter waves goodbye 
forever and deserts devour the last
screaming of trees, a stray sunbeam 
sneaks through a tangle of pines, goofs 
the shatter-angle, wreaks prism 
from join and summons the blue 
ice angels to rise. The quiescent chorus 
sings a unison, a requiem, a whisper, almost, 
of tiny bells. Frozen wavelets break 
their own backs and the beach blanket 
of snow snuggles last fall’s mudded shoe tracks 
striving some lost summit, where the moon 
on the glacier howls a memory of wolves.

Brent Terry

Brent Terry is an award-winning writer and a runner who teaches at Eastern Connecticut State University. He is judging our Lucky 7 Marathon for the poetry entries. He won the Connecticut Poetry Prize and was nominated for the PEN Faulkner Award for fiction. He is the author of The Body Electric, Troubadour Logic, and 21st Century Autoimmune Blues, among others. He is an accomplished Spoken Word artist. He loves Dr. Pepper.