John Minczeski

John Minczeski is the author of several collections, including A Letter to Serafin, and Circle Routes, winner of the Akron Poetry Prize. Recent poems have appeared in The Harvard Review, The New Yorker, Shadowgraph, and elsewhere. He lives near the Battle Creek area of St. Paul.

The Appetite of Snow

I want to know everything about the snow tonight, how it empties into rain and gives birth to my truancies. How it can panic and bloom into the disco ball of the yard light. How it has a slow appetite like a clogged drain. A dead leaf rattles down the street, the wind’s urgency driving it, a sort of piracy…. Read more →