Simile

by Michelle Holgate Lord

Sludge—

soiled snow

from the trampling

of feet

and days gone

by without sun.

Will fresh snow

fall gleaming white?

I have seen

that it is so—

Repentance is like snow.

Photograph by Melissa Marshall

Art by Chantel Nuttall

Photograph by Morgan Murdock

Art by Kristie Gibson

Photograph by Maren E. Younce